From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755299AbZAaTRa (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:17:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752096AbZAaTRV (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:17:21 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42899 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751644AbZAaTRU (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:17:20 -0500 X-Authenticated: #10801262 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/R/R8lNXXR/bgxXAbrgIKS2xO6zNs/lrPISccyxx jXqK8sEF5Ng4qr Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:17:18 +0100 From: Richard Atterer To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28] mousedev: Allow devices to be excluded from /dev/input/mice Message-ID: <20090131191718.GA11742@arbonne.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org References: <20090130120456.GA20461@arbonne.lan> <20090131042959.GA3529@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090131042959.GA3529@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Dmitry, On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:29:59PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2009 04:04:56 Richard Atterer wrote: > > In my case, I'm using some mice as sensors (robotic application, more > > or less), so their movement should not influence the mouse pointer at > > all. > > I think this is the case where EVIOCGRAB use is warranted then. Many thanks for the suggestion - that's exactly what I need! :-) Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯