On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:33:54PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > do get the impression that is what those feilds are for. Look at the
> > > confussion on this list about this.  
> > 
> > Yes, I should document this better somewhere. But you agree that what's
> > done is the sane thing?
> 
> Yes!! 

Thanks for confirmation. :)

> > > Hm. The issue with that is userland might pass in really off values. Then
> > > any calibration is really screwed. Oh I guess if someone does something
> > > that dumb oh wells. It doesn't bring the system down. 
> > 
> > Exactly. And there is always permissions on the device file, by which
> > you can control who has access to both the event data and settings of
> > the ranges.
> 
> BTW one of the ideas for handling topology I like is the idea of having
> different groups for different desktops for multi-desktop systems. You
> could have desktop0, desktop1 etc. This way you don't end up playing
> a mp3 on someone else sound card. You can have multiple sound cards as
> well and you can assign each one to a particular group. Same with
> joysticks etc. 

Yes, this sounds good. It's an userspace thing, though. Our job now is
just to allow it. :)

> > > True. What I was purposing was to make it pre process. Of course this gets
> > > more complex. 
> > 
> > How do you make LED state per process? I deem that impossible.
> 
> Only for things that make sense. For example the force feedback state
> might be nice to have per process. Hm, does XInput handle states per
> client? 

I'm not sure about FF. I can't imagine sharing a FF device by more than
one client process. What if the forces are contradictory?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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