Re: [RFC 1/2] Input: ff, add FF_RAW effect

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a):
> For devices that require tailored application (for example that glove
> - I am not sure how a generic application could control it) old
> phantom way of controlling via ioctl will suffice. The device may
> still use input layer to report back coordinates.

And how about the individual FF ioctl? Did you mean registering another
chardev, which is totally ugly in my eyes or augment evdev.c to support
driver specific ioctl? i.e. either add another 'E' ioctl with pointer to
struct { code, value } as arg param or changing
if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) != 'E'))
	return -EINVAL;
to sth. like
if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) != 'E'))
	return dev->ioctl ? dev->ioctl(file, cmd, p) : -EINVAL;
in evdev_ioctl_handler, which is acceptable?

thanks,
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