On Monday 13 June 2005 17:16, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:07:51PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to convert input systsem to play nicely with sysfs and I am
> > having trouble with hotplug agent. The old hotplug mechanism was using
> > "input" as agent/subsystem name, unfortunately I can't simply use "input"
> > class because when Greg added class_simple support to input handlers
> > (evdev, mousedev, joydev, etc) he used that name.
>
> Why not? What's wrong with using the existing input class? I was
> hopeing it would get flushed out into something "real" someday. All you
> have to do is keep the "dev" stuff in there somewhere and udev will be
> happy.
>
They are different. Your input class represents userpsace interfaces, my
input class represent middleman class devices. If you remember, input
core looks like this:
evdev (/dev/input/eventX devices)
/
hardware /
device -------- input_dev - mousedev (/dev/input/mouseX,
(serio port, \ /dev/input/mice
USB port) \
joydev (/dev/input/jsX devices)
Your input class is fine (except for its name as it uses the same name
that input core was/is using for notification about new instances of
input_devs), but it represents different point in object hierarchy, as
it represents /dev/input/{mouse|event|js}X objects.
Your class devices are useful to properly create device nodes and
probably set up userspace applications to use new input devices. My
input_dev class devices are useful so hotplug would load proper input
handlers (joysdev, mousedev) to create your class devices.
I hope it explains things a bit...
--
Dmitry
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