> But I have a sort-of kernel related question.
> Why does the joystick driver now open in blocking mode by default?
> Not that I'm criticizing or anything like that, just wondering about
> the rationale.
Because it generates events, and not just reports the current state.
It blocks until an event is received. It supports nonblocking mode as
well, but that must be explicitly specified. You can wait on events
in select(), too.
Vojtech Pavlik
joystick driver maintainer
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