From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: mt: Add hovering distance axis
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:46:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFFC45C.2040107@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291710468-2022-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se>
On 12/07/2010 12:27 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Touch devices capable of hovering, i.e., fingers detected a distance
> from the surface, are not supported by the current input MT
> protocol. This patch adds ABS_MT_DISTANCE, which may be used to
> indicate the distance between the contact and the surface.
Have you given thought to calling it ABS_MT_Z instead? I have no real
problem with ABS_MT_DISTANCE per se, but ABS_MT_Z is more clearly
defined in my head. If I was new to MT development I may wonder if
ABS_MT_DISTANCE had anything to do with distance between points or some
other object.
-- Chase
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 8:27 [PATCH] input: mt: Add hovering distance axis Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-07 10:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 17:46 ` Chase Douglas [this message]
2010-12-08 18:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 18:16 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-08 18:20 ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-08 18:40 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-08 23:31 ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-08 23:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-09 0:08 ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-09 0:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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