Re: input system: EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl disabled, why?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:54:25PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday 30 July 2004 09:31 pm, Kristian H?gsberg wrote:
> > Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:41:28PM +0300, Olav Kongas wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>When trying to feed calibration information to a touchscreen driver with
> > >>the EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl command, I noticed that this command is disabled
> > >>in 2.6.7. Only after the modification given in the patch below it was
> > >>possible to use this ioctl command.
> > >>
> > >>Why is the EVIOCSABS command disabled? I cannot imagine that nobody uses
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's a bug. I'll fix it.
> > 
> > On a related note - shouldn't there also be a EVIOCSLED, or am I missing 
> > something obvious?  How do you set keyboard LEDs?
> > 
> 
> I think you can use KDSKBLED/KDSETLED ioctls, but I agree that that evdev
> should also provide access to the same functions.
 
It does, see my previous e-mail.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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