From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Atterer Subject: [PATCH 2.6.28] mousedev: Allow devices to be excluded from /dev/input/mice Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:04:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20090130120456.GA20461@arbonne.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34583 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750779AbZA3MFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:05:01 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: vojtech@ucw.cz, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dtor@mail.ru, rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it, jkosina@suse.cz From: Richard Atterer Allow devices to be excluded from /dev/input/mice This patch adds an "ignoreid=0x1234:0x5678" parameter to the mousedev module. If a mouse matches the given device ID(s), its movement and button presses will not be relayed via /dev/input/mice. Why is this needed? In my case, I'm using some mice as sensors (robotic application, more or less), so their movement should not influence the mouse pointer at all. I could simply specify only my main mouse in xorg.conf rather than /dev/input/mice. However, /dev/input/mice is the only way to allow hot-plugging of mice with X. This feature could also be used to disable non-working/buggy touchpads in laptops. As soon as the "ignoreid" parameter is used, the code also prints out information on devices that it does *not* ignore, to help users find out the device IDs they may want to blacklist. mousedev is usually compiled into the kernel rather than as a module, so I would have liked to make the sysfs permissions for the parameter 0644 rather than 0444. However, I believe there may be a bug in the code for array-of-charp parameters which prevents this from working: After setting up the array via an "echo" to the sysfs file, only the number of array entries is set correctly, the strings themselves are usually empty or point to garbage. I don't think my own code is at fault here!? :-/ Richard Signed-off-by: Richard Atterer --- mousedev.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/input/mousedev.c 2008-12-25 00:26:37.000000000 +0100 +++ b/drivers/input/mousedev.c 2009-01-26 22:36:06.417673499 +0100 @@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ static unsigned tap_time = 200; module_param(tap_time, uint, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(tap_time, "Tap time for touchpads in absolute mode (msecs)"); +static char* ignoreid[8]; +static int ignoreid_count; +/* Would like to make this 0644, but overwriting via sysfs seems buggy: */ +module_param_array(ignoreid, charp, &ignoreid_count, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignoreid, "Specify input IDs of mouse devices which" + " should not be included in /dev/input/mice, as a" + " comma-separated list of \"idVendor:idProduct\" pairs," + " e.g. ignoreid=idVendor0:idProduct0,idVendor1:idProduct1" + " where both idVendor and idProduct are hex with a 0x" + " prefix. Changes after module load time only work for" + " devices that are not yet plugged in."); + struct mousedev_hw_data { int dx, dy, dz; int x, y; @@ -962,6 +974,22 @@ static void mixdev_remove_device(struct put_device(&mousedev->dev); } +static int mixdev_ignore(struct input_dev *dev) { + u16 idVendor, idProduct; + int i; + for (i = 0; i < ignoreid_count; ++i) { + int m = sscanf(ignoreid[i], "0x%hx:0x%hx", &idVendor, &idProduct); + if (m != 2) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "mousedev: Could not parse" + " ignoreid param #%d \"%s\"\n", i, ignoreid[i]); + continue; + } + if (dev->id.vendor == idVendor && dev->id.product == idProduct) + return 1; + } + return 0; +} + static int mousedev_connect(struct input_handler *handler, struct input_dev *dev, const struct input_device_id *id) @@ -970,6 +998,18 @@ static int mousedev_connect(struct input int minor; int error; + if (ignoreid_count) { + if (mixdev_ignore(dev)) { + printk(KERN_INFO "mousedev: Ignoring device" + " 0x%04x:0x%04x for /dev/input/mice\n", + dev->id.vendor, dev->id.product); + return 0; + } + printk(KERN_INFO "mousedev: Including device" + " 0x%04x:0x%04x in /dev/input/mice\n", + dev->id.vendor, dev->id.product); + } + for (minor = 0; minor < MOUSEDEV_MINORS; minor++) if (!mousedev_table[minor]) break;