On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:25:35AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:27:00AM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> >>
> >> "Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...)" on LKML, a
> >> few weeks ago, about moving accelerator-based hard disk parking from
> >> sysfs polling to the the input infrastructure. One unresolved issue
> >> was how to find which input device happens to be the relevant
> >> accelerometer.
> >
> >The current well known methods are:
> >
> > 1) udev/hotplug. It can create device nodes and symlinks based on
> > the
> > capabilities and IDs of an input device.
> > 1a) HAL. It has all the info from hotplug as well.
> > 2) open them all and do the capability checks / IDs yourself.
> > 3) (obsolete, deprecated) parse /proc/bus/input/devices, which
> > lists all the input devices
> >
>
> 4) sysfs - all capabilities, IDs, etc for input devices exported there as
> well.
Oh, of course. I don't know how I could forget sysfs here - I had it in
mind when I started writing the list ...
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
