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 <pingc@wacom.com> Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
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