[Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

[Johannes Zellner]

Hi,

sorry had no network connection yesterday.

On Thursday, May 24, 2012 06:51:32 AM Agocs Laszlo.P wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please do not merge the plug-ins. A monolithic "evdev" monster plug-in is
> not desirable and would certainly not classify as "generic" anymore.
> 
> The "static device discovery" should check the supported event types from
> the devices (this needs opening, an ioctl, and some bittesting so might not
> be lightning fast but on specific udev-less embedded devices it could be
> good enough). This is exactly what udev does too when it decides the device
> class (ID_INPUT_*). Although I'm not sure about the value this feature
> brings: if the embedded system does not have udev then its input device
> configuration is likely to be quite static so a simple hardcoded
> specification of the device nodes should be enough.

I was trying to avoid the quirks that udev does here, but I see your point in 
having more straight forward evdev* plugins, which handle specific cases, 
especially when looking at the evdevtouch.
I will prepare a change adding some device detection I can test, would be 
great if you could then add tests for touch discovery.

> I somewhat disagree on the broken out of the box experience too: Specifying
> what input devices to use via -plugin parameters is perfectly fine on an
> embedded device because you will typically know what type of devices are or
> can get connected.

We just have several Qt users/companies which asked the same question about 
how to get keyboard input, as they simply used eglfs and didn't know about the 
-plugin evdev* thing at all. It would be just convenient for them if it simply 
works.

Johannes