linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Input: xen-kbdfront - allow better run-time configuration

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:50:08 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Oleksandr Andrushchenko <andr2000@...il.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
        lyan@...e.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
Cc:     konrad.wilk@...cle.com, andrii_chepurnyi@...m.com,
        Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Input: xen-kbdfront - allow better run-time
 configuration

On 12/06/18 09:48, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>
> 
> It is now only possible to control if multi-touch virtual device
> is created or not (via the corresponding XenStore entries),
> but keyboard and pointer devices are always created.
> In some cases this is not desirable. For example, if virtual
> keyboard device is exposed to Android then the latter won't
> automatically show on-screen keyboard as it expects that a
> physical keyboard device can be used for typing.
> 
> Utilize keyboard and pointer device XenStore feature fields to
> configure which virtual devices are created:
>  - set "feature-disable-keyboard" to 1 if no keyboard device
>    needs to be created
>  - set "feature-disable-pointer" to 1 if no pointer device
>    needs to be created
> Keep old behavior by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>
> Suggested-by: Andrii Chepurnyi <andrii_chepurnyi@...m.com>
> Tested-by: Andrii Chepurnyi <andrii_chepurnyi@...m.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen