[PATCH synaptics] Disable GrabEventDevice by default

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Mar 19 00:28:11 PDT 2014


Hi,

On 03/19/2014 06:12 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> This was required when we started supporting hotplugging to avoid duplicate
> events. These days the drawback of not being able to record events in the case
> of a bug is significant, possibly more so than whatever static
> configurations are still out there. Let's see how much pain this causes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
> This is likely going to cause the usual shitstorm, but it may just work.
> For those without custom configuration this has no effect (other than
> being able to record the touchpad with evemu).
> For those with an InputClass section, this has no effect.
> 
> Those with a static InputDevice configuration and auto-dev may get duplicate
> devices now. Let's see how big the fallout is from that. We can add
> duplicate detection to the synaptics driver (à la evdev) if it turns out to
> be a problem.

Seems sensible to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>

Regards,

Hans


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