Re: Linux Hotplug Question

Hi All
I thought I was sending it to the group. Sorry that I missed out the group.
Kindly look at the email for more explanation of what I am trying to do.

Thanks
Regards
Navin

On Nov 19, 2007 8:56 AM, Navin Anand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Greg
> Thanks for the reply. What we are trying to do is that intercept mouse
> and keyboard input
> at the kernel level, pass it to user space for some processing and
> then send it over to another
> box. On the other box we use this input.
>
> Since we are dealing with HID devices we need to use hotplug and make
> sure that the input
> is sent over to the other box. At the same time when the device is
> removed we should
> remove the device from the chain and inform the client box the device
> has been removed.
>
> I am not sure if polling was the correct approach to bind and unbind
> the drivers, but since
> this was my first iteration wanted to try if this would work. I also
> found that the udev rules
> can create input nodes as well.
>
> I hope this makes things clear to you as to what I have been trying to achive.
>
> Thanks a lot
> Regards
> Navin
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2007 1:32 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:09:17PM +0000, Navin Anand wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > Any ideas on how to start using hotplug in user space driver.
> > > I do see a lot of information about /sbin/hotplug and creating agents, but
> > > nothing clear on the way it could be done. Any help would with links or
> > > some kind of docs would be helpful.
> >
> > What are you trying to do in your userspace code with hotplug?
> >
> > Based on a quick glance at your example code, I'm not quite sure of what
> > you are attempting to do here.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
>

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