From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932251AbWDYPXE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:23:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932260AbWDYPXE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:23:04 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.204]:19073 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932251AbWDYPXD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:23:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nf9+BIaOOOjLUbcJBw4sznjCuXqW/GjgdGyepTUxDRhQ5suKPNqTKkQk6rzH3aGHsAb3DkLORtK3h6dD3hsAiGl6yrtCFMKlqDTzLln4ESEhg0SCcU6X8ePwZbgv3hdw4hKqWrXd17LTi2i+2eYDR0VHy9xYPIvnLsQKGHi6L4c= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:23:02 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: "Vojtech Pavlik" Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] INPUT: new ioctl's to retrieve values of EV_REP and EV_SND event codes Cc: bjd , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060425151628.GA11078@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060422204844.GA16968@skyscraper.unix9.prv> <20060424145747.GA5906@suse.cz> <20060425151628.GA11078@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/25/06, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:19:42AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On 4/24/06, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On 4/24/06, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:31:39AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Vojtech, could you remind me why EVIOC{G|S}REP were removed? Some > > > > > people want to have ability to separate keyboards (via grabbing); they > > > > > also might want to control repeat rate independently. Shoudl we > > > > > reinstate these ioctls? > > > > > > > > I believe they were replaced by the ability to send EV_REP style events > > > > to the device, setting the repeat rate. > > > > > > > > > > Argh, why am I always forgetting about ability to write events into devices? > > > > Thinking about it some more - writing to the event device is an > > elegant way to set repeat rate but how do you retrieve current repeat > > rate for a given device? > > You can't. And that's likely a problem that needs fixing. > So do you agree that we need to ressurect EVIOCGREP (and EVIOCSREP just to complement the interface)? -- Dmitry