This is somewhat off topic, but as I recall someone posted a patch to use the linux event input interface to support hotplugging in xfree86. it may be of use with what you are looking at now...or not.
Alex --- Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JG> So I'd just open the device and see if PS/2 mice work at this > date. > > PS/2 mice and AT keyboards most definetily do work with the event > interface, at least since 2.5.73 (the first 2.5 kernel I tested[1]). > They do not work in current 2.4, where the event interface is for USB > peripherals only. > > JG> So it is entirely possible everything is already there in current > JG> Linux distributions. > > It's not in stock 2.4 yet. > > JG> So you still have to do a select/poll, read all pending input > JG> events on all different devices, and merge the events in the > JG> server into a single stream in time stamp order. > > Can that happen in dix, or should it be below? > > (Additionally, a large jump in time, say more than a second, should > be > treated as a barrier so as to deal with the clock being stepped. > That > would make one of the hacks in our hw layer go away.) > > Juliusz > > [1] It did work, but froze when compiling XFree86. 2.6.0-test4 > works but the disk scheduler is disappointing, at least on my > hardware. __________________________________ 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
