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

From: Kristian HÃgsberg
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 21:34:55 EST


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?

Kristian

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