[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 85573] Provide a udev handle from the libinput device

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85573

--- Comment #3 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> ---
(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #2)
> That's quite a flippant approach. If you couldn't depend the caller behaving
> properly, you'd get crashes anyway. And valgrind would tell you where the
> problem is without a doubt.

Yeah, but you'd see the crash in libinput first, then have to debug/valgrind to
find out it's in the caller. all of which wastes human resources.

> What devices wouldn't have udev handles, and what devices wouldn't have a
> device node?

some virtualised/emulated devices may not have a normal node, e.g.
keysym-producing keyboards.

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