CC'ing Lennart, he can contribute more details I supposed. On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:58:22AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 03:32:54PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > There is currently no mapping between XI devices and physical devices other > > than what can be extracted by parsing the Xorg logfile. Add new property > > "Device Node" to the driver to export the open device file. > > > > The client is responsible for detecting if the device is on the same host > > and converting the data into a more useful format (e.g. sysfs path). > > So, er, why?
We expose a few features of the physical device through the X driver, but other information is available only through the kernel directly. There is no way of associating an input device with the X device it spawned off short of parsing the X.log. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
