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<p>On Sunday 02 July 2006 05:28, Richard Purdie wrote:</p>
<p>> One thing the input system does well is pass simple switch events to</p>
<p>> userspace though its event devices. Not using the input system for</p>
<p>> switch like events like these is going to result in code duplication.</p>
<p>> </p>
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<p>I think that hotplug/uevent like mechanism would be better suited here.</p>
<p>You want to monitor changes in system state and you do not really want</p>
<p>to monitor myriad of devices but just latch onto one data feed and get</p>
<p>all the data from it (unlike input devices where you might want to</p>
<p>separate data coming from different devices). The following "event"</p>
<p>might be a good starting point:</p>
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<p> struct system_change_event {</p>
<p> struct timeval time; /* look for 32/64 bit issues */</p>
<p> __u16 type;</p>
<p> __u16 code;</p>
<p> __s32 value;</p>
<p> char object_path[224];</p>
<p>};</p>
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<p>Maybe we should start looking into connector or a pure netlink implementation.</p>
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<p>-- </p>
<p>Dmitry</p>
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