On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 01:07:00 PM Paul Fox wrote: > daniel wrote: > > On 11 July 2011 17:39, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Now I'd say that this utility probably better fit into linuxconsole > > > project with the rest of input-related utilities... > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/ ? > > > > This must have been what you were referring to before. Yes, this > > looks like a more appropriate home. I'll take it in that direction. > > i disagree. the contents of that package seems to be mostly for > testing and legacy support. access to the state of input switches in > a generic way seems far more generally useful than that. > > i would rather not see the sysfs state variable go away in the first > place -- it's too convenient to use, and inexpensive to implement -- > needing an ioctl for this seems like a step backwards. but barring > that, relegating the evstate functionality to linuxconsole seems wrong. > (for instance, i don't think the OLPC laptop distros have a need for > any of the other utilities in linuxconsole.) You can package only what you need from it, no need to package everything. -- 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
