Re: usbtouchscreen: Add support for Zytronic capacitive touchscreen

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:35 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > As I understand it; yes. (Some bits of hardware really are hideous
> > things) Indeed if the driver fails to load quickly enough, the device
> > might disconnect/reconnect before the driver can get hold of it.
> Geez... you sure it wasn't just broken device/batch?

Nope, the datasheet proudly proclaims this watchdog functionality.

> > Unfortunately it's often harder to get people to change their userland
> > than their kernel. It seems a pity to make the driver less useful during
> > any longer-term effort to fix TSLIB. If acceptance of this patch is
> > predicated on removing that then I guess we'll have to discuss it
> > amongst ourselves and try and work out what we'd rather do. Is removing
> > the fake pressure report a requirement or a would-like?
> I just checked TSLIB and the change to recognize devices that do not
> report pressure was applied 2 months ago so everything should work fine
> now. I do not think that we need to implement workarounds in newly
> added drivers just because users are not willing to upgrade their
> TSLIB installation.

I see. I shall look into sorting out a fresh patch without fake
pressure.

Regards,

Daniel.

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