Re: Using uinput

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>]

On 08/30/10 18:49, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In a thread to do with the cma3000 accelerometer on lkml Dmitry (input maintainer)
> in passing mentioned that an iio to input bridge might exist in userspace
> using uinput.
> 
> Looks to me like this might kill two birds with one stone for us.
> 
> * Would finally provide a route for all those who want their sensor
>   drivers in input because they want to use them for games.
> * Would provide a fairly good test of the generality of the user space interfaces.
> 
> What do people think of this rather than an in kernel bridge?
> 
> Given it would trivially have access to all of the info on what the sensor is producing
> it actually looks much easier to do than the kernel bridge (which was going to need
> a userspace configuration element or a lot of changes to our internal structure).
> 
If anyone is curious, I just cc'd the list in on the mega lkml thread because
my post includes a quick and dirty hacked together bridge.  It works.

Annoying my test platform is currently rather unstable (stargate2).
Git bisect fun tomorrow.

Jonathan