From 85b7720039fc000b561c20fe2aaa3b54cddae4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrik Rydberg Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:51:13 +0100 Subject: Input: introduce device properties Today, userspace sets up an input device based on the data it emits. This is not always enough; a tablet and a touchscreen may emit exactly the same data, for instance, but the former should be set up with a pointer whereas the latter does not need to. Recently, a new type of touchpad has emerged where the buttons are under the pad, which changes logic without changing the emitted data. This patch introduces a new ioctl, EVIOCGPROP, which enables user access to a set of device properties useful during setup. The properties are given as a bitmap in the same fashion as the event types, and are also made available via sysfs, uevent and /proc/bus/input/devices. Acked-by: Ping Cheng Acked-by: Chase Douglas Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg --- drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/input/misc') diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c index bea89722c4e9..82542a1c1098 100644 --- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c +++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c @@ -680,6 +680,10 @@ static long uinput_ioctl_handler(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, retval = uinput_set_bit(arg, swbit, SW_MAX); break; + case UI_SET_PROPBIT: + retval = uinput_set_bit(arg, propbit, INPUT_PROP_MAX); + break; + case UI_SET_PHYS: if (udev->state == UIST_CREATED) { retval = -EINVAL; -- cgit v1.2.3