[PATCH weston 2/5] evdev: Add event process dispatching

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 10 May 2012 22:11, Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that we need to get evdev a little more under control, but I
> was thinking that we'd be able to decide up front that a device is a
> touchpad, a mouse a keyboard or such.  In evdev_configure_device()
> we'd decide what it is and just set a 'process' function pointer in
> evdev_input_device and all then events just go to that one handler.

Nah, you can't really decide up front.  X forces that on us and it's
caused us no end of trouble with keyboards that have blingy little
extra bits on them (or just entire trackpads), weird mice, etc.  Not
to mention if you ever want to do mouse keys for accessibility.

Cheers,
Daniel