From: "Pat Campbell" <plc@novell.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][LINUX] Decode mouse dz event
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:08:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475CE51A.3E48.0018.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C382F55F.19AB5%Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
<Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Applied.
>
> Can the frontend driver be sure that the dz field will have a sane value
> with older backends that do not support the field? Or should this new field
> be advertised via xenstore?
>
Patch is backwards compatible. Packet size has not changed and packet was
fortunately zero filled in the older code before setting the position values. Newer
frontend coupled with an older backend will always see dz as zero, no wheel event.
Pat
> -- Keir
>
> On 10/12/07 13:27, "Pat Campbell" <plc@novell.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Decodes mouse event packet dz value and passes it as a wheel event into
>> the input stream.
>>
>> Please apply to linux- 2.6.18- xen
>>
>> Signed- off- by: Pat Campbell <plc@novell.com>
>>
>>
>>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-10 13:27 [PATCH][LINUX] Decode mouse dz event Pat Campbell
2007-12-10 13:53 ` Keir Fraser
2007-12-10 14:08 ` Pat Campbell [this message]
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