Re: Jack event API - decision needed

Takashi Iwai
2011-06-20T17:12:21Z

At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:07:40 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 03:37:25PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
>
> > I'm still new in the community in that sense that I'm not sure how
> > decisions are made. But I could use the outcome of such a decision.
>
> So, I'm still not 100% sure what the actual technical issue is here?

The device permissions. They are set inaccessible from the normal
desktop user as default.

...
> > For options 2a) and 2b) I guess the existing /dev/input thing should
> > be deprecated and/or removed. So part of decision should maybe be
> > based on information about how widespread the usage of these devices
> > are currently...?
>
> There's a reasonable amount of usage in the embedded space.

Do they use udev? And don't they need to tweak the device permissions
of these input-jack devices on the fly per user?

thanks,

Takashi