On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:23:28PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik schrieb: >> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:59:09PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:12:05AM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >>> > And by the way, what about that >>> > > kind of tool in >>> >> one of the input packages to attach input line disciplines >>> > you mentioned in your mail dated 26.01.2008 20:28? Can you point me >>> > to a source so that I can make sure ldattach covers its functionality >>> > too? >>> >>> Ok, did a little search in my archives, and it's called inputattach. >>> It's a package of it's own in most distributions but I can't actually >>> find an upstream source for it. I've Cc'ed Vojtech because he wrote >>> it. >> >> I used to maintain it in the linuxconsole.sf.net CVS, now it's >> maintained by Dmitry Torokhov. Ccing Dmitry - Dmitry, is the development >> now moved or is still the sf.net repository the master? > > Ok, I found a version at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dtor/inputattach.c > which looks reasonably recent (v1.24 2006/02/06) and had a quick > look. > > Apart from the TIOCSETD ioctl which it has in common with ldattach, > it also contains a large table of device specific data and methods > for initializing the various input devices which can be driven by > the N_MOUSE line discipline. In order to merge this into ldattach, > I would probably extend the <disc> command line argument in order > to select table-driven pre- and post-TIOCSETD actions and parameter > presets. For example: > > current: inputattach --mouseman /dev/ttyS0 > -> new: ldattach INPUT=mouseman /dev/ttyS0 > > (Defining INPUT as an alias for MOUSE in order to avoid ugly > combinations like MOUSE=sunkbd. ;-) > > I am however somewhat unsure whether such a solution would be > desirable, or if the requirements of N_MOUSE are so unique as to > warrant a separate utility. Opinions? > I don't have a strong opinion here. How much code will be shared? Can we keep old name as an alias to the new utility so we dont break distributions scripts? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
