From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>,
Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>,
Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephane Chatty <chatty@lii-enac.fr>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Benjamin Tissoires <tissoire@cena.fr>,
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>,
"X.Org Devel List" <xorg-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: EVIOC mechanism for MT slots
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:15:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121091519.GA13565@polaris.bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDoDm=XqEveR0j9z9bxdPdNtT4JzuXcVrYxAxK@mail.gmail.com>
> This is really problematic when launching applications that rely on
> evdev to work:
> you click with the mouse emulation on your icon to launch the program
> (one finger), and you start using your application with one finger
> only (opening of a file for instance) -> you are in an unstable case
> as the app does not know the slot state until you put another finger
> on the screen.
>
> So I'm in favor of applying this patch Henrik submitted last May.
Great, so there seems to be sufficient interest to warrant revisiting
this. If you can find the patches, I will queue them in my tree. ;-)
And if Dmitry concurs, perhaps we can even aim at 2.6.38.
Thanks,
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 21:10 EVIOC mechanism for MT slots Rafi Rubin
2011-01-21 1:45 ` Ping Cheng
2011-01-21 3:57 ` Chris Bagwell
2011-01-21 7:58 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2011-01-21 9:15 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2011-01-21 9:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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