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Re: [RFC] rfkill/rfkill-input userspace API

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On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:47:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hi Matthew!
> > Eh? What is that ioctl in the git version doing there, then?  Did I
> > get the code from the wrong branch or something?
> 
> Ok, more on this: the ioctl _is_ needed for privacy reasons, it wasn't
> added there just for the kick of it AFAIK.  Instead of just breaking
> things the other way, can we configure evdev to sometimes do the grab,
> and sometimes not, depending on a config option for that particular
> device? 

No it's not. The event devices are only readable by root, and root can 
get your keypresses anyway.

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