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From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Subject: Re: Handling of non-positional data through evdev
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:10:32 +0100
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On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 17:17 -0700, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> Thanks for providing this suggestion. I can see this approach work
> for
> situations like screen rotation on tablets. The device I'm involved
> with is an input device, which needs a high poll rate for
> acceleration
> / velocity and needs to be paired with the button / axes data. Evdev
> would be most appropriate.

So more like a Wiimote than a builtin sensor. What will consume events
in user-space? A specialised application?