From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] rfkill/rfkill-input userspace API
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:53:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090328125301.GA26537@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090328124719.GF7439@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:47:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hi Matthew!
> > Eh? What is that ioctl in the git version doing there, then? Did I
> > get the code from the wrong branch or something?
>
> Ok, more on this: the ioctl _is_ needed for privacy reasons, it wasn't
> added there just for the kick of it AFAIK. Instead of just breaking
> things the other way, can we configure evdev to sometimes do the grab,
> and sometimes not, depending on a config option for that particular
> device?
No it's not. The event devices are only readable by root, and root can
get your keypresses anyway.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-28 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 15:58 [RFC] rfkill/rfkill-input userspace API Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] rfkill: prepare to export global states to userspace Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] rfkill: expose global switches through sysfs Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 15:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] rfkill: expose global state to sysfs Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 15:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] rfkill: export events for global state changes Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 21:34 ` [RFC] rfkill/rfkill-input userspace API Johannes Berg
2009-03-28 12:37 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-27 22:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-28 12:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-28 12:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-28 12:47 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-28 12:53 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-03-28 14:48 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-28 15:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-28 15:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-03-28 15:22 ` Matthew Garrett
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