genode/repos/os/src/server/input_merger
Norman Feske 4d442bca30 Streamline exception types
This patch reduces the number of exception types by facilitating
globally defined exceptions for common usage patterns shared by most
services. In particular, RPC functions that demand a session-resource
upgrade not longer reflect this condition via a session-specific
exception but via the 'Out_of_ram' or 'Out_of_caps' types.

Furthermore, the 'Parent::Service_denied', 'Parent::Unavailable',
'Root::Invalid_args', 'Root::Unavailable', 'Service::Invalid_args',
'Service::Unavailable', and 'Local_service::Factory::Denied' types have
been replaced by the single 'Service_denied' exception type defined in
'session/session.h'.

This consolidation eases the error handling (there are fewer exceptions
to handle), alleviates the need to convert exceptions along the
session-creation call chain, and avoids possible aliasing problems
(catching the wrong type with the same name but living in a different
scope).
2017-05-31 13:16:07 +02:00
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main.cc Streamline exception types 2017-05-31 13:16:07 +02:00
README init: apply routing to environment sessions 2017-01-31 12:01:11 +01:00
target.mk transition Input infrastructure to new base API 2016-10-21 12:39:29 +02:00

This component merges the input events of multiple sources.

Example configuration:

<start name="input_merger">
	<resource name="RAM" quantum="1M" />
	<provides>
		<service name="Input" />
	</provides>
	<config>
		<input label="ps2" />
		<input label="usb_hid" />
	</config>
	<route>
		<service name="Input" label="ps2">
			<child name="ps2_drv"/> </service>
		<service name="Input" label="usb_hid">
			<child name="usb_drv" /> </service>
		<any-service> <parent /> <any-child /> </any-service>
	</route>
</start>

For each 'input' config node, the component opens an 'Input' session with the
configured label. This label is then evaluated by 'init' to route the session
request to a specific input source component.