Hi Richard, On Friday 30 January 2009 04:04:56 Richard Atterer wrote: > From: Richard Atterer <atterer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Allow devices to be excluded from /dev/input/mice > > This patch adds an "ignoreid=0x1234:0x5678" parameter to the mousedev > module. If a mouse matches the given device ID(s), its movement and button > presses will not be relayed via /dev/input/mice. > Thank you for the patch, however I don't think that it is the right solution. > Why is this needed? In my case, I'm using some mice as sensors (robotic > application, more or less), so their movement should not influence the > mouse pointer at all. I think this is the case where EVIOCGRAB use is warranted then. > I could simply specify only my main mouse in > xorg.conf rather than /dev/input/mice. However, /dev/input/mice is the only > way to allow hot-plugging of mice with X. > The newer X does support input hotplug pretty well actually. > This feature could also be used to disable non-working/buggy touchpads in > laptops. > You can already do that by unbinding serio and usb devices from their respective drivers, no need to modify mousedev. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
