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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list\:ABI\/API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Vojtech Pavlik" <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Add virtio-input driver.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:51:43 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fu5iwxk.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427198927-1745-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
> virtio-input is basically evdev-events-over-virtio, so this driver isn't
> much more than reading configuration from config space and forwarding
> incoming events to the linux input layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Is the input layer sane?  I've never dealt with it, so I don't know.

What's it used for?

Imagine a future virtio standard which incorporates this.  And a Windows
or FreeBSD implementation of the device and or driver.  How ugly would
they be?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 12:08 Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-25  3:21 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2015-03-25  5:36   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2015-03-26  1:53     ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-26  8:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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