On 12/3/2009 8:08 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Samu Onkalo wrote: >> Add optional enable and disable methods to input system. >> Add sysfs entry for enabling and disabling input device. > >> When registering a device to input system, device can provide >> optional enable and disable methods. State is set to enabled by default. >> Opening / closing the input device doesn't change the state. >> If the callback functions are not provided, sysfs entry returns >> ENOSYS error code. > > I'm wondering if it might be nice to provide a default implementation > which causes the input core to ignore the events generated by the device > if the driver doesn't support being enabled or disabled? Obviously this > wouldn't be of any benefit in preventing resume or providing power > saving but it would give userspace the same effect which might be useful > to it for UI purposes. I think a default implementation of the input core for this is useful ex. at gpio-keys driver. -- 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
