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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>,
	Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>,
	Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>,
	Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>,
	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 01:22:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121092200.GA24214@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121091519.GA13565@polaris.bitmath.org>

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > 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.
> 

The reason I objected in the first place is that the patch was a "nice
to have for completeness". Now that there are actual users needing this
data I have no issues with adding ioctl to retrieve this data.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21  9:22 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
2011-01-21  9:22         ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]

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