libevdev list of event devices

Martin Kepplinger martink at posteo.de
Mon Apr 1 06:46:48 UTC 2019


Am 01.04.2019 08:32 schrieb Jake Magee:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if the functionality already exist in libevdev to 
> report a
> list of the current event devices?  I've looked through the API
> documentation but couldn't find anything.  I'm interested in finding 
> event
> devices on execution and polling for additions / removals while 
> running.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jake Magee


Hi Jake,

AFAIK it doesn't. have a look at evemu's find_event_devices() function. 
It
doesn't use libevdev but generically does what you want, right?

I actually doubt that this is supposed to be part of libevdev, but 
others might
know better :)

                                martin



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