From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: pgf@laptop.org To: Daniel Drake Subject: Re: [PATCH] evstate: new utility for querying evdev key/switch/event state From: Paul Fox cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Karel Zak , util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers , linux-input@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: (sfid-20110711_124927_157078_A3E8F7E6) References: <20110709132046.90A119D401C@zog.reactivated.net> <20110711121836.GJ5214@nb.net.home> <20110711163917.GA1648@core.coreip.homeip.net> (sfid-20110711_124927_157078_A3E8F7E6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:07:00 -0400 Message-ID: <15489.1310501220@foxharp.boston.ma.us> List-ID: daniel wrote: > On 11 July 2011 17:39, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Now I'd say that this utility probably better fit into linuxconsole > > project with the rest of input-related utilities... > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/ ? > > This must have been what you were referring to before. Yes, this looks > like a more appropriate home. I'll take it in that direction. i disagree. the contents of that package seems to be mostly for testing and legacy support. access to the state of input switches in a generic way seems far more generally useful than that. i would rather not see the sysfs state variable go away in the first place -- it's too convenient to use, and inexpensive to implement -- needing an ioctl for this seems like a step backwards. but barring that, relegating the evstate functionality to linuxconsole seems wrong. (for instance, i don't think the OLPC laptop distros have a need for any of the other utilities in linuxconsole.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf@laptop.org