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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
Subject: Re: FF layer restrictions [Was: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantom driver]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:08:33 -0400
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On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:34, johann deneux wrote:
> What about adding a member to ff_effect which would be the number of the motor?
> We can't change the layout of ff_effect too much though, so we have to
> find unused bits and put them to work.
> 
> For instance, we could replace
> 
> __u16 type;
> 
> by
> 
> __u8 motor;
> __u8 type;
> 

Splitting type field seems to be a good idea.

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Dmitry