>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <jac...@sunsite.dk> writes:
Hi, Peter>> Ok, I missed that we're trying to solve two different use-cases. Peter>> Punting a unique device ID into the properties is be quite Peter>> useful, I've been struggling for a while with figuring out how Peter>> to make per-device configuration work in a sane manner. Peter>> However, is the phys path enough here? Users think in physical Peter>> devices and we should (if we can) allow for the same device Peter>> being plugged into a different port. Peter> Well, it's atleast part of the identification. Again, we Peter> basically have 2 use cases: Peter> 1: User plugs in USB device to a different port and wants SAME Peter> settings applied between sessions Peter> 2: User has several of same devices (E.G. my use case is Peter> multihead with same type of touchscreens) and want DIFFERENT Peter> settings for each (but persistent over sessions). Peter> For 1, our best bet is probably using the device name as Peter> provided by xinput already, but for 2 we need to look at the Peter> phys path (E.G. USB port for usb devices) to be able to handle Peter> the common case of USB devices without a unique serial number Peter> (so EVIOCGUNIQ doesn't give anything). Peter> The question is if we can come up with a sensible logic for Peter> choosing between name/phys/uniq? Any comments on this? Peter? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard _______________________________________________ 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
