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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [INPUT] simple question on driver initialisation.
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:55:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050726105557.GB1588@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050726102340.44709.qmail@web25805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:23:40PM +0200, moreau francis wrote:

> I'm currently developping a very simple driver for a pinpad by using
> Input module. I'm using Event handler to pass events from pinpad to userland.
> In this simple case, I'm wondering if I really need to initialise
> "phys" field in in "input_dev" struct before calling "input_register_device".

Yes, it is required.

> What is this field for ?
 
It is intended for identifying the device based on "location" in the
system.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-26 10:23 moreau francis
2005-07-26 10:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-07-26 11:47   ` moreau francis
2005-07-26 12:01     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-07-26 12:26       ` moreau francis
2005-07-26 13:03         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-07-26 14:58           ` moreau francis
2005-09-28  5:12           ` TCP Network performance degade from 2.4.18 to 2.6.10 Eshwar
2005-09-28 16:35             ` Stephen Hemminger

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