Re: [PATCH] evstate: new utility for querying evdev key/switch/event state

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 01:07:00 PM Paul Fox wrote:
> daniel wrote:
>  > On 11 July 2011 17:39, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> 
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.)

You can package only what you need from it, no need to package everything.


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Dmitry