From: Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>
To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Equivalent of /dev/input/mice for keyboards
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:29:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <495EA371.8050304@manoweb.com> (raw)
Hi, I have developed a PS/2 driver for a new ARM-based hardware.
I have used the serio subsystem and I can test with input-event or
similar programs that the keyboard and mouse I have connected work well.
Now, this platform, being an embedded ARM board, does not have a
"console" that can be attached to the keyboard. I only connect with
serial port or telnet. And here I am getting confused: I can read one
device at a time by opening /dev/input/event*.
I would like to write my userspace application so that it gets all the
input from the various keyboards (can be up to two PS/2 keyboards + USB
ones) and process it. The struct input_event is very convenient but what
I am doing now is to open all the event* devices and select() them. This
wouldn't probably work if I connect/disconnect a device on the fly. It
would be much easier if I had a device similar to input/mice that
automatically does the muxing for me...
Thank you
Alessio
next reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 23:29 Alessio Sangalli [this message]
2009-01-12 7:32 ` Equivalent of /dev/input/mice for keyboards Dmitry Torokhov
2009-01-12 21:14 ` Alessio Sangalli
2009-01-13 5:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-01-15 7:56 ` Alessio Sangalli
2009-01-15 8:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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