From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Add virtual "idle" device
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:43:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306184356.GA1311@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236033772-20329-2-git-send-email-marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
On Mon 2009-03-02 23:42:52, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> This virtual device can be used to tell user space about periods of time
> when user didn't "touch" input devices (keyboards, mice, touchpads, joysticks,
> etc). For now it supports only keyboard events.
>
> Notification is done through simple select/poll + ioctl interface.
>
> It can be used to implement screen savers, automatic suspend,
> autoaway/autodisconnect (e.g. in instant messangers) without
> any help from X server and its overhead (context switches).
I don't think this is good interface; what if you have more than one
seat? And without mouse handling it is useless anyway, so....
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 22:42 [RFC PATCH 2/2] Add virtual "idle" device Marcin Slusarz
2009-03-03 10:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-03 14:17 ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-03-06 18:43 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-03-12 1:08 ` Marcin Slusarz
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