Re: Linux input layer evdev capturing

[David Gibson <david () gibson dropbear id au>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:08:38PM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > > > > > "David" == David Gibson <david () gibson dropbear id au> writes:
>     David> Uh.. so, what's the next step here?
>
>     >> I thought Guy already allocated one.
>     >> 
>     >> /* * David Gibson <david () gibson dropbear id au> requested this
>     >> for # captures from the Linux kernel /dev/evd device. This is
>     >> used to * communicate keystrokes and mouse movements from the
>     >> Linux kernel * to display systems, such as Xorg.  */ #define
>     >> DLT_LINUX_EVDEV 216
>     >> 
>     >> What else should I write?
>
>     David> Uh.. sorry.. I didn't see that.  Where should I have been
>     David> looking?
>
>   No, I actually hadn't allocated it or commited it until I wrote the
> email to see if the text made sense.    Guy hadn't allocated one, so I
> did.  I'm actually not certain that I did it right.
>   I also wanted to know if my description made sense to you.  

Ah, ok, I see.  The description looks fine to me, with the exception
that the devices are (usually) called /dev/input/event[0-9], not
/dev/evd.

>     David> Did this go past on the list (I can't see it on gmane), or
>     David> has that gone into a tree somwhere (I can't see it on the
>     David> default CVS branch)?
>
>   Not in CVS at this point.
>  http://github.com/mcr/libpcap/commit/bfb8369657376d58ff54a4a0e64adc86900c2327

Ok.

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