HIDIOCKM[GS]DIRECT ioctls for the USB HID driver [PSARC/2009/329 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2009]

[James Carlson]

Aaron Zang writes:
> I guess the keyboard is still usable under Xorg. It is because Xorg also
> opens /dev/kbd. Whenever a new keyboard is plugged in, it will get plumbed
> under conskbd, so even Xorg fails to open it directly via /dev/usb/hid%d,
> it still can get the input via /dev/kbd.
> 
> That should be minor flaw of Xorg while using HAL.

That's a bit confusing.  If both /dev/kbd and /dev/usb/hid* work
properly, but the latter relies privileges that are currently
mishandled in Xorg, then why bother with the trouble of using those
HID nodes at all?

(At least there should be a CR filed on this.)

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