From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>,
Andy Ross <andy.ross@windriver.com>,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reporting "orientation changed" event
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 15:38:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110509143828.GA2632@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110407181800.27b441b1@destiny.ordissimo>
(Sorry for taking so long to respond)
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:18:00PM +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:
> Pegatron Lucid tablet sends an ACPI hotkey event(0xEA) when the
> accelerometer detects coarse orientation change. My initial thought was
> to just translate this event into KEY_DIRECTION, which seems to be the
> norm from what we can see in hp-wmi driver. (See patch below for an
> implementation.)
>
> But this isn't just a key per se like on the HP touchsmart tablet, this
> is an event that is triggered when the device is rotated.
>
> This could be defined as a new Misc (EV_MSC) event:
> MSC_ORIENTATION_CHANGED ?
I'd say that it ought to be hooked into the accelerometer driver and
that should indicate that the orientation has changed.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-09 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 16:18 [RFC] Reporting "orientation changed" event Anisse Astier
2011-04-07 16:37 ` Bastien Nocera
2011-04-07 16:44 ` Anisse Astier
2011-04-07 17:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-04-07 17:19 ` Anisse Astier
2011-05-09 14:38 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-05-09 15:37 ` Andy Ross
2011-05-09 15:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-05-09 15:59 ` Andy Ross
2011-05-09 16:30 ` Anisse Astier
2011-05-09 16:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-05-09 17:58 ` Anisse Astier
2011-05-09 18:06 ` Matthew Garrett
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