Re: USB IR receivers and evdev
Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:59:29PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:44:35PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > > > I poked around in what meager uinput doc I could find. It is not clear > > > if events fed into uinput appear on their own evdev device or if they > > > get merged into another stream. > > uinput is designed to allow for creation of virtual input devices > controlled from userspace, indistinguishable from the real thing by > applications. > > > A quick look at the code suggests that using write() + UI_DEV_CREATE > > ioctl you can register an input device (which should appear as > > /dev/input/eventX via udev). However it looks like you need a daemon > > process per device since there is no 'add new device' ioctl and it uses > > struct file to identify the device. > > You need a new open() for each new device, not a separate process. Ah right, that was my initial thought, but then I got the idea from somewhere that it struct file was per process not per fd. Thanks for the correction. -- Ville Syrjälä [email protected] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel