Re: Disable input device

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:24:03 +0100
Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What do you think about adding new sysfs file "disable" (accept 
> values 1 or 0) for every input device? With "1" it cause that 
> kernel will drop all events from specific input device and if 
> driver provide some function is can be called (e.g. for power 
> management or disabling device at hardware level).
> 

Yeah, I'd like to see this too. I am using xinput to disable the
notebook keyboard so the cats walking across it don't cause any
problems. It would be nice to have a better solution.
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