From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161258AbXDKVvm (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:51:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161264AbXDKVvm (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:51:42 -0400 Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.164]:62953 "EHLO pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161258AbXDKVvl (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:51:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:51:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Osterlund X-X-Sender: petero@p4.localdomain To: Dmitry Torokhov cc: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev In-Reply-To: <200703262114.45287.dtor@insightbb.com> Message-ID: References: <20070324001610.724a820a.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20070326144206.93805eeb.zaitcev@redhat.com> <200703262114.45287.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 17:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote: >> >> I don't think that you need to concern yourself with this too much >> at present. If X11 people (e.g. Kristian) present evidence that kernel >> fails to deliver an event, then we'll look at it. However it might >> help if evtest continued to work when X11 reads from /dev/input/eventN. >> It was an unpleasant surprise that it doesn't. > > The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events > from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in > whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter > (CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so users who don't > use mousedev multiplexor can use evtest and other commands. That sounds like a useful option. Implemented in my git tree: git clone http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/synaptics/.git -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://web.telia.com/~u89404340