On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Ran Shalit <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:18:50PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 02:43:30PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote: >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > Is there some way to disable input event device ? >> > > Maybe a way to disable its irq usage ? >> > > >> > > I actually rather do that from shell, not from kernel, because >> the kernel >> > > source is not available, and I thought that issue is also >> relevant in the >> > > forum. >> > >> > But the Linux kernel source is available, why not just not load the >> > driver for the device you are wanting to not be "connected"? >> > >> > >> > Hi Greg, >> > >> > I am trying to do that from android, in a device where the kernel >> source is not >> > available :( ..... >> > By the way, I think the company (No.1 for D6 smartwatch) should supply >> the >> > source because kernel is GPL , Right ? >> >> Yes it is, please contact the company about this to get the source code >> for your device. If you have problems with this, please try the Linux >> Foundation's form for this type of thing at: >> https://www.linuxsources.org/content/open-compliance-directo >> ry-request-contact-information >> as it works really well. >> >> > Therefore I try to achieve it by doing some actions in shell. >> >> Disconnect the device from the driver by writing the device id to the >> "unbind" sysfs file for the driver that is controling the device. >> Examples of how to do this in detail should be on the web somewhere, I >> think I wrote a lwn.net article about this a long time ago... >> >> > Hi, > > Thanks for the good suggestions. I'll try both. > > I found your article here: > https://lwn.net/Articles/143397/ > > Regards, > Ran > > >> good luck! >> >> greg k-h >> > > Hi, Just wanted to update the the unbind method (for disabling device such as touch screen) works perfectly with linux in general, and in android Linux too ! Many Thanks, Ran
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