Hi Dmitry, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Trilok, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 05:21:09PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote: >> Hi Dmitry, >> >> Is there any way of creating private ioctls in the input driver? I see >> that all the input framework handled >> by the framework itself and there is no way to call private ioctls if >> it doesn't match the standard ones. >> > > You are right, event devices only allow standard ioctl. What kind of > ictl are you considering? Normally device-specific controls are done via > sysfs attached to the parent device (see atkbd, psmouse, etc). sysfs might good for purpose when you can associate one file per value, so for more data we can't simply create one file per the data. Say five fingers touch data (I know we have MT_* support but here it is just for example) , say id, x, y, z etc., per finger, then we can't create one file for each of them. -- ---Trilok Soni http://triloksoni.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/triloksoni -- 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
