xorg.conf matching uinput device

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:38:52AM +0100, Arne.Adams at t-online.de wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written an xorg module for a proprietary ethernet based virtual keyboard.
> I can load that driver only witch a matching rule on the actual input path (dev/input/event4)
> I tried to match by tag (InputClass... MatchTag) with a udev assigned tag on /dev/input/event4), however that fails.

you can match on the device name, the pid/vid, etc. surely one of those will
be sufficient to match?

if the tag matching doesn't work then that could be a bug, but I doubt it,
we haven't touched that code in quite a while.

> A more flexible approach for matching an xorg module to a device would be something like "tentative module loading".
> The user supplied device_control function (Bool (*device_control) (DeviceIntPtr device, int what)) would return a new constant, indicating "not my business".
> In that case xorg server would load other devices (if present) for the given module.

no, what you have is likely a local misconfiguration, no need for the server
to get more complicated here.

Cheers,
   Peter