From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
"open list:ABI/API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v3] Add virtio-input driver.
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:25:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427210714.18768.23.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150324143839-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On Di, 2015-03-24 at 15:14 +0100, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:37:24PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > > input layer checks it and ignores events not supported (according to the
> > > > support bitmaps).
> > >
> > > Right but support bitmaps come from host too, no?
> >
> > Yes, but the driver will not set invalid bits (bitcount argument for the
> > virtinput_cfg_bits() function is the number of valid bits of the
> > specific bitmap).
> >
> > cheers,
> > Gerd
> >
> >
> >
>
> Question: does linux ever get such events from userspace
> as opposed to sending them to userspace?
Yes, it's possible using the userspace input driver
(CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT)
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-24 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-24 7:32 [PATCH v3] Add virtio-input driver Gerd Hoffmann
[not found] ` <1427182321-19451-1-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-24 10:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-24 10:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-24 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-24 10:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-24 11:46 ` [virtio-dev] " Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-24 13:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20150324135908-mutt-send-email-mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-24 13:37 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-24 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-24 15:25 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2015-03-24 16:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-24 16:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-24 17:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-24 17:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-25 5:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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