On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 08:19:16AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:00:40AM -0200, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote: > > Hi input guys, > > > > after playing with uinput, it seems an sleep call is necessary before > > emitting new events. If this really required? > > > > While reading code of cwiid project, another user of uinput interface, it > > seems this sleep time isn't necessary[1]. > > > > In the other hang, when trying to send a simple event in my desktop, an > > sleep is necessary, take a look in my example[2]. > > > > Another interesting fact: kernel documentation lacks of an uinput example. > > Do you think this would be interesting to have one? > > I'm obviously biased but imo you should really use libevdev for uinput > devices, it makes things a lot easier. Example is here: > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/latest/group__uinput.html > > it also makes any sleep calls obsolete because it won't return until the > device node is available. I created another example[1], basically converting my uinput code now using libevdev, but it doesn't work as it should... Am I missing something, or forgetting to set some bit? Thanks. [1] https://github.com/marcosps/kernel_experiments/blob/master/userspace/evdev.c > > Cheers, > Peter > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > Marcos > > > > [1] https://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid/blob/master/wminput/uinput.c#L193 > > [2] https://github.com/marcosps/kernel_experiments/blob/master/userspace/uinput.c#L65 > > -- > > 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 > > -- 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
