On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:47:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > 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. I can live with that. Very well, I will hunt down what version of evdev we have in Debian stable and unstable, what version of evdev stopped doing grab-by-default, and document this in a few places. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
