Re: xpad - Rename buttons to avoid conflict with mouse input

[Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:49:33PM +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Michael Gruber wrote:
>>> From: Michael Gruber <lists.mg@googlemail.com>
>>>
>>> BTN_LEFT, BTN_RIGHT and BTN_BACK are listed as mouse buttons according to
>>> input.h. Rename them to make sure they do not interfere with mouse input.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Gruber <lists.mg@googlemail.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> When I set up the driver to use MAP_DPAD_TO_BUTTONS the controller starts
>>> acting as mouse. Touching the d-pad issues left and right mouse click events
>>> and the back button acts like one of my other mouse buttons.
>> Patch seems correct to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
>>
> 
> The original author of d-pad mode did that so the pad withh work
> with stepmania. If left/right/0/1 are the defaults used there
> we might break existing setups...

With a quick test there seem to be no default mappings for game
controllers, but they are manually defined.

IMO having to redefine keys after a major kernel upgrade is ok, and
certainly a lesser trouble than having dancepad directionals act as
mouse buttons.

> Do you know of other applications
> using dance pads?

Nope.

-- 
Anssi Hannula