disable input event device

[Ran Shalit]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:18:50PM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote:
>> >
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>> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
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>> >     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-directo
>> ry-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...
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>>
> 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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>
Hi,

Just wanted to update the the unbind method (for disabling device such as
touch screen) works perfectly with linux in general, and in android Linux
too !

Many Thanks,
Ran
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