Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:04:28 +0000 | From | Simon Ser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drm/input_helper: Add new input-handling helper |
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On Friday, November 19th, 2021 at 16:53, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Random idea ... should we perhaps let userspace connect the boosting? I.e. > we do a bunch of standardized boost targets (render clocks, display sr > exit), and userspace can then connect it to whichever input device it > wants to?
On IRC we discussed having user-space hand over a FD to the kernel. When the FD becomes readable, the kernel triggers the boost.
This would let user-space use e.g. an input device, an eventfd, or an epoll FD with any combination of these as the boost signal.
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