From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262103AbUEaG3w (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2004 02:29:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262380AbUEaG3w (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2004 02:29:52 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:15233 "EHLO midnight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262103AbUEaG3u (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2004 02:29:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:30:13 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sau Dan Lee , tuukkat@ee.oulu.fi Subject: Re: SERIO_USERDEV patch for 2.6 Message-ID: <20040531063013.GB268@ucw.cz> References: <200405301116.31356.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20040530205119.GD1971@ucw.cz> <200405301850.49219.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405301850.49219.dtor_core@ameritech.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > But in the meantime marking several ports raw will allow most of the users > > > use old means of communicating with their pointing devices without too > > > much effort. > > > > It'd be good to find out what devices we don't support yet (I know of > > ALPS, which we have a patch pending for and IBM TouchPoints), too. > > > > Sau Dan Lee's Lifebook touchscreen ;) The data processing seems to be > trivial, but I don't have any idea how to detect it. And without being > able to explicitly control binding for a specific serio port its hard > to do drivers for hardware that we can't autodetect. We just have to > assume that device behind a port is of specific type and when there > are many ports its usually wrong. Conclusion: We need sysfs, and we need it soon. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR