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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, rydberg@euromail.se
Subject: Re: [patch 1/9] input: mousedev: distinguish a moving finger from a tapping finger
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:22:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514032246.GB12778@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905122102.n4CL2KWY006881@imap1.linux-foundation.org>

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:43:04PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
> 
> The tap functionality of mousedev does not distinguish between a tap
> (on/off localized in time and space) and a quick move (on/off localized in
> time only).  This patch improves the tap detection by testing also for
> space locality.
> 

I will not be applying this patch. Mousedev is legacy interface and we
should not be extending it; synaptics X driver does properly handle
advanced touchpad and is included in every [major] distribution.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12 20:43 [patch 1/9] input: mousedev: distinguish a moving finger from a tapping finger akpm
2009-05-14  3:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]

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