Re: Communicating tablet mode status to userspace

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why can't you change event device ownership to the local user?  Then you
> can read and act upon events.

That would work, I guess.

However, it sounds like your suggesting that we add some custom rules
in OLPC's own builds and leave it at that. I'm not sure what
user/group we could use for a generic rule matching this hardware.

The disadvantage here is that it doesn't work as a global solution to
the problem - every embedded distro in the same situation would have
to add a custom rule thing, and "generic distros" would have no such
solution at this time.

Maybe not such a big deal while OLPC is the only user. But I did come
across another request for SW_TABLET_MODE access:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43935

Or would a udev rule making the OLPC switch device (and potentially
similar devices on other platforms in future) world-readable on all
distros be accepted?

Thanks,
Daniel
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