problems with HAL and input devices

Stefan Kost ensonic at hora-obscura.de
Tue Jul 31 01:30:47 PDT 2007


Hi,

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 21:33 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Hmm, this sounds like it's still going to be problematic.  Why do you
>> need to fail if it's not a switch? 
> 
> Because it's not, if you know what I mean.
> 
>> Sounds like returning success if you either: a) detect it's not a
>> switch, or b) successfully set up the switch, is the way to go here. 
> 
> Yes, my patch is broken. Is there any documentation on:

I've found this very useful:
http://www.frogmouth.net/hid-doco/linux-hid.html

> 
> capabilities/abs
> capabilities/ff
> capabilities/led
> capabilities/rel
> capabilities/sw
> capabilities/ev
> capabilities/key
> capabilities/msc
> capabilities/snd
> 
> The HAL comments for this is pretty, well, non-existent and could do
> with a cleanup IMO.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
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