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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Interacting with a input kernel driver from user space
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:17:17 +0100
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To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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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