Re: [RFC PATCH] input: Add disable sysfs entry for every input device

On Wednesday 04 January 2017 15:37:35 Bastien Nocera wrote:

I don't doubt that the use cases should be catered for, I essentially
did that same work without kernel changes for GNOME. What I doubt is
the fuzzy semantics, the fact that the device is kept opened but no
data is sent (that's not power saving), that whether users are revoked
or should be revoked isn't clear, and that the goal is basically to
work around stupid input handling when at the console. When running a
display manager, this is all avoided.

If this were to go through, then the semantics and behaviour needs to
be better explained, power saving actually made possible, and make sure
that libinput can proxy that state to the users on the console. Or an
ioctl added to the evdev device to disable them.

So, do you mean to implement this "disable" action as ioctl for
particular /dev/input/event* device (instead of sysfs entry)?

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