Hi, On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:32:16AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > 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.
To be honest, it's not really the sort of thing I want to encourage; is there anything in particular missing from Xi 2.1? Telling clients to just mix and match the two and hope they haven't screwed up local vs. remote, et al, sounds a tad unfortunate. Not to mention that they probably don't have access to the devices. Cheers, Daniel
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