linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] Resolve 2 year old issue with different demands on EVIOCGRAB

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Message-ID: <20080815022453.GA9438@anvil.corenet.prv>
Date:	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:24:53 -0400
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC]  Resolve 2 year old issue with different demands
	on EVIOCGRAB

Hi Neil,

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:02:09PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> I'll let the comments in the patch below to most of the talking.
> This came up because I wanted to use EVIOCGRAB in some code on an
> Openmoko Freerunner, and found that EVIOCGRAG does different things on
> that kernel to elsewhere.  I looked into why, and found that there was
> a good reason but that the issues hadn't been completely resolved.  I
> hope to help resolve the issues so that EVIOCGRAB can behave the same
> everywhere, and still meet everybody's needs.
> 
> I would have Cc:ed to Magnus Vigerlof who wrote the original patch on
> which this is based, but his Email address doesn't appear in lkml.org.
> 

I don't think this is a viable solution - there are other "good"
handlers beisdes evdev, such as rfkill-input, which will still get
disabled by the "lightweight" grabs.

Overall I think it is application's responsibility to not use
multiplexing devices if they use evdev, bit I can consider adding a new
interface (maybe another ioctl) that would disable event delivery though
certain interfaces for a device.

-- 
Dmitry
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