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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding BTN_TOOL_TOUCH to input.h
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:32:30 -0800
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Cc: Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>, Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>, linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suze.cz>

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:06:43AM +0300, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> On 11/27/2010 02:02 AM, Chris Bagwell wrote:
> >When I looked at input_absinfo.resolution, I see only synaptics.c is
> >using it right now and it is defined using units/mm.
> I'm not sure if it matters a lot, but Jiri has accepted my resolution
> calculation patch to hid-input.c [1] which does it in *units/inch* for
> generic HID devices, which choose to provide correct information in their
> report descriptors.
> 

OUCH. We need to fix this _now_. We can not allow reporting resolutions
in random units. Since we started with unit/mm we have to keep it and
if it gives issues we can think about adding other units later on, but
for everyone.

-- 
Dmitry