From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Subject: Re: Disable input device
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:28:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141206102855.69b4b218@as> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201411291824.03996@pali>
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:24:03 +0100
Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you think about adding new sysfs file "disable" (accept
> values 1 or 0) for every input device? With "1" it cause that
> kernel will drop all events from specific input device and if
> driver provide some function is can be called (e.g. for power
> management or disabling device at hardware level).
>
Yeah, I'd like to see this too. I am using xinput to disable the
notebook keyboard so the cats walking across it don't cause any
problems. It would be nice to have a better solution.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-06 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 17:24 Disable input device Pali Rohár
2014-12-06 12:47 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-06 15:28 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
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