Re: [ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-28 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:06:24PM -0400, Todd Showalter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Peter Hutterer > wrote: > > > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library > > for evdev devices. > > Looks nice! > > I assume this doesn't abstract away the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-27 Thread Wander Lairson Costa
2013/6/27 Peter Hutterer : > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:15:03AM -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: >> 2013/6/27 Peter Hutterer : >> > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library >> > for evdev devices. The motivation is two-fold: >> > >> > * users of evdev currently is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:15:03AM -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: > 2013/6/27 Peter Hutterer : > > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library > > for evdev devices. The motivation is two-fold: > > > > * users of evdev currently issue ioctls directly, checking bit

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-27 Thread Todd Showalter
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library > for evdev devices. Looks nice! I assume this doesn't abstract away the need to be root to access events. Tod

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-27 Thread Wander Lairson Costa
2013/6/27 Peter Hutterer : > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library > for evdev devices. The motivation is two-fold: > > * users of evdev currently issue ioctls directly, checking bit masks > manually. all this is a source for error, especially as there are some

[ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

2013-06-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library for evdev devices. The motivation is two-fold: * users of evdev currently issue ioctls directly, checking bit masks manually. all this is a source for error, especially as there are some inconsistencies in the ioctl APIs