disable input event device

[Ran Shalit]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:18:50PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 02:43:30PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > Is there some way to disable input event device ?
> >     > Maybe a way to disable its irq usage ?
> >     >
> >     > I actually rather do that from shell, not from kernel, because the
> kernel
> >     > source is not available, and I thought that issue is also relevant
> in the
> >     > forum.
> >
> >     But the Linux kernel source is available, why not just not load the
> >     driver for the device you are wanting to not be "connected"?
> >
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > I am trying to do that from android, in a device where the kernel source
> is not
> > available :( .....
> > By the way, I think the company (No.1 for D6 smartwatch) should supply
> the
> > source because kernel is GPL , Right ?
>
> Yes it is, please contact the company about this to get the source code
> for your device.  If you have problems with this, please try the Linux
> Foundation's form for this type of thing at:
>         https://www.linuxsources.org/content/open-compliance-
> directory-request-contact-information
> as it works really well.
>
> > Therefore I try to achieve it by doing some actions in shell.
>
> Disconnect the device from the driver by writing the device id to the
> "unbind" sysfs file for the driver that is controling the device.
> Examples of how to do this in detail should be on the web somewhere, I
> think I wrote a lwn.net article about this a long time ago...
>
>
Hi,

Thanks for the good suggestions. I'll try both.

I found your article here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/143397/

Regards,
Ran


> good luck!
>
> greg k-h
>
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