Disabling touch screen.

NeilBrown neilb at suse.de
Mon Nov 10 21:18:39 CET 2008


On Mon, November 10, 2008 11:49 pm, Andy Green wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> | All we have to do is undo the kernel hack which effectively disables
> | EVIOCGRAB and then it is trivial to turn off the touchscreen.
> | Just open the device and issue that ioctl.
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> | I think userspace has been fixed to not depend on this hack any more,
> | so I guess I should prod the kernel guys to drop that patch.
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> | Prod.
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> | We simply want to revert
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> |   a6b37451a52ae7d30c2493b9cc14b8604e81587d
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> OK so if I follow, just nuke this
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> http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=blobdiff;f=drivers/input/evdev.c;h=2f3d82511749d560fbd4f8e26dc525c0e4bee946;hp=e5b4e9bfbdc5b044b968a70579f13eea513a12c6;hb=a6b37451a52ae7d30c2493b9cc14b8604e81587d;hpb=40d5d4e980e0d4a5d00759f7fa2a18488f95a0ef
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> from mokopatches effectively?  It sounds better that we use existing
> IOCTL than add some /sys thing we have to sell upstream.

Yes, exactly.

Thanks.

NeilBrown




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