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

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Friday 30 July 2004 09:31 pm, Kristian Høgsberg 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.

-- 
Dmitry
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