Re: Linux input event extending tool exist?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:41:38PM -0500, Eric Lammerts wrote:

> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >You can use evtest (attached). It's often found in the joystick RPMs.
> >It's also in the linuxconsole.sf.net CVS repository.  On recent kernels
> >it'll show the scancodes as well as the generated keycodes.
> 
> Vojtech, are you aware that this doesn't work well with 32-bit apps on 
> x86-64 kernels? The ioctls don't work (no compat definitions), and 
> struct input_event is 24 bytes instead of 16.
 
Yes, I'm aware of that, and I don't have a solution for it yet, since
adding compat ioctls is easy, but using the right input_event size is
next to impossible.

The problem is with the difference in size of struct timeval.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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