[Fwd: Re: MPX merge coming up]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Hi

The xorg devs want the kernel to quirk devices such as the following
one:

> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=00db Version=0111
> N: Name="Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000"
> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.1-8.3/input0
> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-8/1-8.3/1-8.3:1.0/input/input2
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd event2 
> B: EV=120013
> B: KEY=1000000000007 ff800000000007ff febeffdff3cfffff fffffffffffffffe
> B: MSC=10
> B: LED=107
> 
> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=00db Version=0111
> N: Name="Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000"
> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.1-8.3/input1
> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-8/1-8.3/1-8.3:1.1/input/input3
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd event3 
> B: EV=10001f
> B: KEY=37fff002c3027 bf00444400000000 1 10f848a27c007 ff7f7bfad9415fff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
> B: REL=40
> B: ABS=100000000
> B: MSC=10

I hope it's in the kernel plans too.

-------- Message transféré --------
De: Daniel Stone 
À: Nicolas Mailhot 
Cc: Peter Hutterer, Colin Guthrie 
Sujet: Re: MPX merge coming up
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:24:24 +0300

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 09 mai 2008 à 19:01 +0930, Peter Hutterer a écrit :
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > > Your above comment immediately makes me think of laptops with 
> > > mouse+trackpad. These would presumably count as multiple input devices, 
> > 
> > they do count as multiple input devices. except that we differ between
> > physical input devices (mouse + trackpad) and virtual input devices. The
> > latter are cursors and keyboard foci but NOT physical devices.
> 
> BTW some keyboards (MS ones) expose two HID devices: one HID device for
> the standard part of the keyboard (pc105), another for extended
> multimedia keys. I hope MPX will be smart enough to keep both parts
> together.

Kernel quirk.

Daniel, rapidly becoming a parody of himself
-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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