Hi David, On Sep 02 2014 or thereabouts, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It is useful for userspace to know that they're not dealing with a regular > > mouse but rather with a pointing stick (e.g. a trackpoint) so that userspace > > can e.g. automatically enable middle button scrollwheel emulation. > > > > It is impossible to tell the difference from the evdev info without > > resorting > > to putting a list of device / driver names in userspace, this is > > undesirable. > > ..so it is better to put that table into the kernel? > > I thought the plan was to avoid putting more hardware tables into the > kernel. All those tables are always loaded into RAM, whereas solutions > like udev hwdb can provide the exact same features in user-space but > avoid loading it into RAM, except if used. hwdb is pretty nice to > store information about hardware. It is not meant for configuration or > volatile data, but rather as read-only lookup table for hardware > information.
I think you misread Hans in this case. Hans stated: - if this is not provided by the kernel, we have to create a user space table with all old and new future devices - if we put this in the kernel, then we only have to add this property to the few generic drivers which present this feature to the user space, and done. See patch 1/2. There is no table in the kernel. > > You could easily extend the hwdb with a trackpoint variable that marks > specific devices as trackpoints. I don't think this is reasonable. You will have to review all laptops with trackstick to add them into this (huge) db. > > Anyhow, if you guys want it in the kernel, go ahead. I just don't see > the advantage of having it in kernel-space. > Again, it's either 10 lines in the kernel, and we forget about it, or we have to carry a db which has to be updated with every single different laptop model available. I am definitively in favor of those 10 lines. Cheers, Benjamin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
