Re: [PATCH v2] Input: evdev - Add EVIOC mechanism to extract the MTslot state

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Jan 06 2012 - 15:02:47 EST


On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > > Ok, maybe not to so easy after all, which probably answers my own
> > > question. Looks like a EVIOCGMTSLOT, taking both slot and event code
> > > as argument, would be the cleaner route to take. Another ioctl, how do we
> > > feel about that?
> >
> > What's the problem with userspace locking?
>
> The idea was to get by without it.
>
> Regarding ioctls, it does not seem realizable due to ioctl number
> exhaustion.

I am prettu sure we cabn spare 1 ioctl number. We just need to pass slot
number not as part of ioctl number but in data instead. Like
EVIOCGKEYCODE works.

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Dmitry
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