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From: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: enable / disable methods with sysfs entry
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:42:38 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B17A42E.3000805@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091203110834.GF13165@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>

On 12/3/2009 8:08 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Samu Onkalo wrote:
>> Add optional enable and disable methods to input system.
>> Add sysfs entry for enabling and disabling input device.
> 
>> When registering a device to input system, device can provide
>> optional enable and disable methods. State is set to enabled by default.
>> Opening / closing the input device doesn't change the state.
>> If the callback functions are not provided, sysfs entry returns
>> ENOSYS error code.
> 
> I'm wondering if it might be nice to provide a default implementation
> which causes the input core to ignore the events generated by the device
> if the driver doesn't support being enabled or disabled?  Obviously this
> wouldn't be of any benefit in preventing resume or providing power
> saving but it would give userspace the same effect which might be useful
> to it for UI purposes.

I think a default implementation of the input core for this is useful 
ex. at gpio-keys driver.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-03 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 10:58 [PATCH] input: Enable / disable methods Samu Onkalo
2009-12-03 10:58 ` [PATCH] input: enable / disable methods with sysfs entry Samu Onkalo
2009-12-03 10:58   ` [PATCH] input: twl4030_keypad enable / disable feature Samu Onkalo
2009-12-03 11:08   ` [PATCH] input: enable / disable methods with sysfs entry Mark Brown
2009-12-03 11:42     ` Joonyoung Shim [this message]
2009-12-03 15:20       ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-12-03 17:22         ` Mika Westerberg

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