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34 lines
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= Going beyond simple input mapping =
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We want to be able to ``clone'' devices remotely.
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Something like this would be nice:
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Device 0:
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netcat port | ./clone-device
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Device 1:
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read-device /dev/input/inputX | netcat addr port
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Filtering, injecting or rewriting of input would also be very nice. Possibly
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with a configuration file / small scripting language.
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Filtering could be done either with another program, or integrated into
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clone-device; since filtering makes no sense if you do not also create a new
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device. OTOH, if you're doing much more than filtering, like injection or
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rewriting, then it makes more sense to give a different name, maybe
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input-modify?
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Problems:
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- We cannot just pass around struct input_event ; endianness may become an issue
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- We cannot perform ioctls to read all the events/buttons exposed by a device
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over the network. I suggest that by design these are just passed over the
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network once. (As they cannot change at runtime anyway)
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- We need a proper configuration file or scripting language. Although I guess
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the C macros work fine for now. We can even make a nice Makefile that generates
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seperate binaries per config:
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make my_config # uses config/my_config.h to generate map-my_config
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