How does HAL choose the event device to listen on?

[Jason Xia]

Hi everyone,

My problem basically comes from using HAL with thinkpad_acpi, the latter
creates a virtual input device. HAL does not listen on that event
device, and lshal doesn't list it as an input device. Here is the
segment in /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=17aa Product=5054 Version=4101
N: Name="ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
P: Phys=thinkpad_acpi/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=33
B: KEY=1e840000 0 0 100100 0 0 0 1500b 2000 0 1004000 0 0 0 0
B: MSC=10
B: SW=8

EV=33 says the device is capable of EV_SYN, EV_KEY, EV_MSC, and EV_SW.
But ps tells me no hald-addon-keyboard process is listening on that
specific device, /dev/input/event4. Here is the only thing to do with
thinkpad_acpi in lshal:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_thinkpad_acpi'
  info.bus = 'platform'  (string)
  info.linux.driver = 'thinkpad_acpi'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  info.product = 'Platform Device (thinkpad_acpi)'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_thinkpad_acpi'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi'  (string)
  platform.id = 'thinkpad_acpi'  (string)

I tried looking at HAL's source code, but end up with no clues how HAL
chooses the device to listen on. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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jasonxh