From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
To: "Stéphane Chatty" <chatty@enac.fr>
Cc: linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] USB HID: Add ID for eGalax Multitouch used in JooJoo tablet
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:59:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6DA935.1060302@bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7CA092C-6BDD-4457-B800-606FF4C2DC9D@enac.fr>
On 08/19/2010 11:45 PM, Stéphane Chatty wrote:
>
> Le 17 août 10 à 11:56, Henrik Rydberg a écrit :
>
>>
>> Ah yes, the pointer emulation via ABS_X/Y. My personal view is that
>> pointer
>> emulation is a gesture, and thus best implemented in userspace.
>
> I agree 100% with you on this (well, I'd rather say that gestures and
> single touch emulation are two cases of input interpretation, but that's
> just my academical bias).
>
> However this issue was discussed last year on this list and as far as I
> understood it was decided that single touch emulation was required in
> the kernel for some time...
At that time, maybe the alternatives were not as clear as they are now. :-) I
think what it all means is that over time, we will see less and less of the
ABS_X/Y, since we will eventually stop adding it, and hardware inevitably ages.
Cheers,
Henrik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-16 15:30 [PATCH RESEND] USB HID: Add ID for eGalax Multitouch used in JooJoo tablet Henrik Rydberg
2010-08-17 7:49 ` Stéphane Chatty
2010-08-17 9:56 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-08-19 21:45 ` Stéphane Chatty
2010-08-19 21:59 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2010-08-17 10:55 ` Chase Douglas
2010-08-17 11:33 ` Stéphane Chatty
2010-08-17 11:44 ` Chase Douglas
2010-08-17 11:34 ` Stéphane Chatty
[not found] <m339wl2ug6.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
2010-08-12 23:10 ` Chris Ball
[not found] ` <m3hbiz8m11.fsf-0VGQAjvlmrQzNDMTQreKSUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-12 23:15 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-13 10:47 ` Stéphane Chatty
2010-08-14 2:33 ` Chris Ball
2010-08-16 14:03 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-16 13:58 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-16 15:17 ` Stéphane Chatty
2010-08-16 15:37 ` Stéphane Chatty
[not found] ` <F35B802E-C47A-47BF-A350-8F57250D4394-rXV5z7KbLFk@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-18 9:33 ` Mathieu Virbel
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