On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:50:55 -0500
> Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kristoffer,
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:33:34PM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> > > Dmitry, (or anyone else)
> > > 
> > > in what way is the phys = "blablabla/input0" important aside from
> > > placement in /sys? Im asking because all my keyboard/touchscreen
> > > end with input0 and wondering if I need to set one to /input1 atleast.
> > > 
> > 
> > It is supposed to describe where physically the device is. So if you
> > have a signle device sonnected to a controller you would alwaay use
> > it. But if you have, for exabple, USB keyboard with embedded touchpad
> > and USB presents it as 2 separate interfaces you will get input0 and
> > input1.
> > 
> 
> Yeah I think I get it. So seperate devices can all use input0 without any 
> issues.
> Also another quick question, where should the device numbers exist? I mean 
> inside /sys.
> I seem to need to create those devfiles myself as udev don't pick them up.
> 

The input device itself does not have a device number, only interfaces
attached to it (evdev, mousedev, etc) have dev attribute.

-- 
Dmitry

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