evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:24:34PM -0200, pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>:
> > The EVIOCGRAB call in the evdev driver means that /dev/input/mice will
> > no longer receive any events for that particular device, so no problem.
> 
>   How is this addressed on other operating systems? Or if hal is configured
> to use a driver other than evdev for the given input device? I am talking
> about "static" input devices, not hot plugable ones.

evdev is Linux-only.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org