[PATCH] xf86ActivateDevice(): Add "Device Node" property to input devices

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed May 5 03:37:44 PDT 2010


On Wed, May  5, 2010 at 12:12:00 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> Add "Device Node" xinput property containing the device node path to
> all input devices with a device property. This is useful to figure out
> the relation between xinput ids and kernel devices.
> 
Why is this something we should expose to clients?  They may not be on
the same machine anyway, and typically the device path is not stable, so
it seems to me clients can't do much with that information?

Cheers,
Julien


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