From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Heidelberg Subject: serial touchscreen and inputattach Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:01:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200806152101.10156.markus.heidelberg@web.de> Reply-To: markus.heidelberg@web.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:37679 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750755AbYFOTBP (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:01:15 -0400 Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4824CDFEB272 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [91.19.29.124] (helo=pluto) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1K7xTW-0008Bs-00 for linux-input@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:01:14 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm currently working on a serial touchscreen driver and have some questions. What's the rule for creating a new name for serio protocol in serio.h for use in serio_device_id.proto and input_dev.id.vendor? Can I just take a free number? I guess then I should take the next one (currently 0x37 after SERIO_ZHENHUA), however there are some gaps in the list. Is there an official version of inputattach? I found different sources. The last change at [1] is about 2 years ago. At [2] there is a broken CVS link to [1]. The inputattach tool in buildroot's tslib package is derived from [1] with some minor changes. The inputattach from Debian's joystick package is derived from a three years old version of [1], the tool from Gentoo's joystick package is the same as in [1]. So it seems as if [1] is quite official, because everything is pointing to it. But there is another inputattach at [3] with a reworked code base, which is only 1 year old and supports some more devices, mainly touchscreens. Or is there another preferred way beside inputattach to bind the touchscreen to its driver and inputattach is obsolete? [1] http://linuxconsole.cvs.sourceforge.net/linuxconsole/ruby/utils/ [2] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/ [3] http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dtor/ Markus