From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Nuno Santos <nsantos@edigma.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Interacting with a input kernel driver from user space
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:17:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111150017.17985.oneukum@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111141057.42310.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Am Montag, 14. November 2011, 19:57:41 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> On Monday, November 14, 2011 10:24:17 AM Nuno Santos wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have defined my first attribute in the following way:
> >
> > static ssize_t usbtouchscreen_update_sensibility(struct device *dev,
> > struct device_attribute *attr,
> > const char *buf, size_t count)
> > {
> >
> > printk(KERN_INFO "update sensibility called");
> >
>
> Updating sensibility is always a good thing but I gather you mean
> sensitivity here...
>
> BTW this should probably be a per-user setting and belong to the X driver,
> not kernel driver. I.e. kernel streams all data and userspace (X) decides
> what data do discard according to current user preferences.
Hi,
before we define yet another interface specific to a driver, could we discuss
whether this interface could be applicable to a wider range of devices?
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-14 12:24 Interacting with a input kernel driver from user space Nuno Santos
2011-11-14 15:37 ` David Herrmann
2011-11-14 16:00 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-14 16:09 ` David Herrmann
2011-11-14 16:31 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-14 16:58 ` David Herrmann
2011-11-14 18:24 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-14 18:57 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-14 23:17 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2011-11-14 23:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-15 9:41 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-15 9:38 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-15 9:35 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-15 18:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-15 18:41 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-15 19:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-14 17:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-15 10:32 ` Henrik Rydberg
2011-11-15 10:40 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-15 19:07 ` Chase Douglas
2011-11-16 10:25 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-16 10:28 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-16 17:28 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-16 19:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-11-17 15:39 ` Nuno Santos
2011-11-17 16:58 ` Nuno Santos
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