[PATCH evdev] Export device node as property.

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Feb 6 14:58:22 PST 2011


On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 03:32:54PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> There is currently no mapping between XI devices and physical devices other
> than what can be extracted by parsing the Xorg logfile. Add new property
> "Device Node" to the driver to export the open device file.
> 
> The client is responsible for detecting if the device is on the same host
> and converting the data into a more useful format (e.g. sysfs path).

So, er, why?

Cheers,
Daniel
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