Zephaniah Hull did some work to support this awhile back as I recall: http://people.debian.org/~warp/evdev/
I'm not familiar with the issues involved, but this patch might help. Alex --- "Bryan W. Headley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > How is the work on the XF86Config parser coming? I ask because I > noticed > that the 'Option "Device" "/dev/input/event?"' is getting weird, like > I > thought it would when we were discussing Input System improvements. > > Specifically, my tablet seems to have chosen for it different > /dev/input/event? paths where it is mapped to during boot-up. For > several times, it's mapped to /dev/input/event2, then after a > subsequent > reboot, it moves to /dev/input/event1 for awhile... > > Given that we're dealing with hotplug systems, and are now seeing a > series of device mappings to pseudo-devices (unlike, say, /dev/tty01, > > which always refers to a specific serial port), I'm wondering if > there > should be a different keyword in the Config file to augment > "Device"... > > This is half-baked, so I'm throwing it out for comment for than > anything: > > 1. Device /path # same behavior as before > 2. DeviceDesc > Bus "USB" > ID "Wacom" > EndDeviceDesc > > The notion here is, something that is matched to the operating system > > will scan the 'pseudo-mapped' devices, knowing that it's looking for > a > Wacom device on one of the USB ports. It should come back with an > array > of paths (in case you have more than one tablet), which the device > driver loader then uses as it's path for opening the handle. > > Obviously, if you have more than one device with the same > description, > > a) You need something to further differentiate the units. Perhaps > something like "SerialNum xxx " or "modelNum yyy ", or just > "FirstOne". > > b) If there is a lack of differentiating data, then 1-to-many devices > > are mapped to 1-to-many instances of the same driver. Have to do > something at the identifier to uniquely ID them -- appending an > incrementing integer works. > > Thoughts? Flames? Arguments? I like 'em... > > > -- > ____ .:. ____ > Bryan W. Headley - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
