On Fri 2020-06-05 19:33:28, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > Userspace might want to implement a policy to temporarily disregard input > from certain devices. Wow, you certainly cc a lot of lists. > An example use case is a convertible laptop, whose keyboard can be folded > under the screen to create tablet-like experience. The user then must hold > the laptop in such a way that it is difficult to avoid pressing the keyboard > keys. It is therefore desirable to temporarily disregard input from the > keyboard, until it is folded back. This obviously is a policy which should > be kept out of the kernel, but the kernel must provide suitable means to > implement such a policy. > > Due to interactions with suspend/resume, a helper has been added for drivers > to decide if the device is being used or not (PATCH 1/7) and it has been > applied to relevant drivers (PATCH 2,4,5,6/7). But is that a right way to implement it? We want this for cellphones, too -- touchscreen should be disabled while the device is locked in the pocket -- but we really want the touchscreen hardware to be powered down in that case (because it keeps SoC busy and eats a _lot_ of electricity). But simplistic "receive an event and then drop it if device is inhibited" does not allow that... Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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