From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964932AbVHOUNE (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:13:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964935AbVHOUNE (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:13:04 -0400 Received: from s243.chello.upc.cz ([62.24.84.243]:64925 "EHLO suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964932AbVHOUNC (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:13:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:13:47 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: mr.fred.smoothie@pobox.com Cc: Joe Peterson , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] to drivers/input/evdev.c to add mixer device "/dev/input/events" Message-ID: <20050815201347.GA1651@ucw.cz> References: <4300D09C.4030702@skyrush.com> <20050815174558.GB1450@ucw.cz> <4300D845.8070605@skyrush.com> <20050815185729.GA1450@ucw.cz> <4300EF7C.9020500@skyrush.com> <161717d505081513066c660129@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <161717d505081513066c660129@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:06:04PM -0400, Dave Neuer wrote: > On 8/15/05, Joe Peterson wrote: > > > > So, overall, I agree that we should not invent hacks to make up for > > another software package's problems... > > but also wrote: > > > If the kernel could handle that aspect, it would make all programs more stable. > > which seems a little contradictory. > > However, Joe continued with: > > > It does not sound right to push the handling of the intermittent nature > > to each user program. > > Indeed. Each user program should not care about it. An event/hotplug > library should, and the user programs should use that. Like d-bus/HAL. Yep. Exactly so. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR