Re: [PATCH 0/2] input/serio: Add a firmware_id sysfs attribute

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:12:43AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/28/2014 08:56 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:21:59PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:12:08AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>
> >>> Which in the end turns out to be much nicer too, since it gets rid of needing
> >>> a udev-helper too. After this much too long introduction I'll let the patches
> >>> speak for themselves.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I was coming to the conclusion that this was probably the best we 
> >> could do. It's unfortunate that "id" is already in use - we'd be able to 
> >> get away without any X server modifications otherwise.
> >>
> >> Long term we probably still want to tie serio devices to the ACPI 
> >> devices in case the vendor provides power management calls there, but we 
> >> can leave that until there's an actual example.
> > 
> > I am still unsure if we shoudl be adding these new IDs to serio core...
> > Can't the X driver take a peek at ACPI devices on it's own?
> 
> The problem is there is no way for userspace to know which /sys/devices/pnp0/00:xx
> device is the serio bus host.

Practically speaking you should not care - there is only one touchpad in
Lenovos.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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