On Monday 13 March 2006 16:02, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 21:54 +0100, Elias Naur wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I believe that the current event input interface is missing some kind of
> > information about the general kind of input device (Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick
> > etc.) so I added a simple ioctl to do just that. The relevant line in
> > include/linux/input.h is:
> >
> > #define EVIOCGUSAGE(len) _IOC(_IOC_READ, 'E', 0x1c, len) /* get all
> > usages */
> >
> > It returns a bit set with the device usages. Current usages are:
> >
> > #define USAGE_MOUSE 0x00
> > #define USAGE_JOYSTICK 0x01
> > #define USAGE_GAMEPAD 0x02
> > #define USAGE_KEYBOARD 0x03
>
>
> I'm not sure that this is a good idea in general.
> However when you do it, at least make it a bitmap; things can be both a
> mouse and a keyboard for example.
>
No, I don't think this is needed at all - users should be interested in
what capabilities a particular device has, not what type it was assigned
by soneone.
--
Dmitry
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