Re: [PATCH v4] Add virtio-input driver.

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
> virtio-input is basically evdev-events-over-virtio, so this driver isn't
> much more than reading configuration from config space and forwarding
> incoming events to the linux input layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Is the input layer sane?  I've never dealt with it, so I don't know.

What's it used for?

Imagine a future virtio standard which incorporates this.  And a Windows
or FreeBSD implementation of the device and or driver.  How ugly would
they be?

Thanks,
Rusty.