On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > Hi Vicki, > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:52 AM Vicki Pfau <vi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This allows the touchpad input_dev to be removed and have the driver remain > > functional without its presence. This will be used to allow the touchpad to > > be disabled, e.g. by a module parameter. > > Thanks for the contribution. > I'd like to hear from Roderick, but I have a general comment here: > We had Wii and Steam controllers following this logic. Now we are > adding Sony PS ones... That seems like a lot of duplication, and I > wonder if we should not have something more generic. Hmm, if userspace is not interested in data from an input device (and it does not want to simply not open it), it can use inhibit/uninhibit sysfs attributes to silence it. I am not sure we need to build support for destroying input device or introducing module parameters, etc. Thanks. -- Dmitry
