From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:42:07 +0000 Subject: Re: Input sysbsystema and hotplug Message-Id: <200506140242.08982.dtor_core@ameritech.net> List-Id: References: <200506131607.51736.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <200506131705.30159.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <42AE8820.2010102@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <42AE8820.2010102@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kay Sievers , Greg KH , Vojtech Pavlik , LKML , Andrew Morton On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:32, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > And yes, we should break compability and come up with a clean > implementation. But those pesky users scream every time we break their mice ;) > And as the original input event is an abomination I > don't see the point in keeping compability with a broken interface. > Why is it abomination (aside from using old mechanism to call hotplug)? It looks like it transmits all data necessary to load appropriate input handler... -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261307AbVFNHmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:42:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261310AbVFNHmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:42:15 -0400 Received: from smtp823.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.171.9]:34213 "HELO smtp823.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261307AbVFNHmM (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:42:12 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: Input sysbsystema and hotplug Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:42:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kay Sievers , Greg KH , Vojtech Pavlik , LKML , Andrew Morton References: <200506131607.51736.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <200506131705.30159.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <42AE8820.2010102@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <42AE8820.2010102@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506140242.08982.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:32, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > And yes, we should break compability and come up with a clean > implementation. But those pesky users scream every time we break their mice ;) > And as the original input event is an abomination I > don't see the point in keeping compability with a broken interface. > Why is it abomination (aside from using old mechanism to call hotplug)? It looks like it transmits all data necessary to load appropriate input handler... -- Dmitry