From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kristian H?gsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>, Olav Kongas <olav@enif.ee>
Subject: Re: input system: EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl disabled, why?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:34:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040731093445.GB1579@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407302354.25041.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:54:25PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2004 09:31 pm, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
> > Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:41:28PM +0300, Olav Kongas wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>When trying to feed calibration information to a touchscreen driver with
> > >>the EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl command, I noticed that this command is disabled
> > >>in 2.6.7. Only after the modification given in the patch below it was
> > >>possible to use this ioctl command.
> > >>
> > >>Why is the EVIOCSABS command disabled? I cannot imagine that nobody uses
> > >
> > >
> > > It's a bug. I'll fix it.
> >
> > On a related note - shouldn't there also be a EVIOCSLED, or am I missing
> > something obvious? How do you set keyboard LEDs?
> >
>
> I think you can use KDSKBLED/KDSETLED ioctls, but I agree that that evdev
> should also provide access to the same functions.
It does, see my previous e-mail.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-31 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 12:41 Olav Kongas
2004-07-28 13:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-31 2:31 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2004-07-31 3:48 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 4:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-07-31 9:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-07-31 9:33 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-31 15:21 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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