linux-kernel - Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:50:16 +0300
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
CC:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi/apm events as inputs: how to handle?

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
[]
>> Well, you use event device in any case; as for finding right one - I guess
>> you look at device capabilities and filter what you need ...
>>
>> {pts/0}%
>> cat /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1/capabilities/key
>> 100000 0 0 0
> 
> Exactly. Any driver working through evdev interface should examine
> device's capabilities and decide whether it is interested in the
> device or not.

Ok, got it.
But I can't open the device multiple times, can I?
Like, there's a daemon listening on volume up/down and other
multimedia keys for example, and it can't listen to the same
eventX as a daemon that's watching for power/sleep buttons, --
instead, they should be combined into the same executable.
Unless there's a way to multiplex the events...
(Hmm, this becoming quite... ugly.  Oh well.)

By the way, where are all the capabilities of input devices
documented?

/mjt

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