From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Maurus Cuelenaere <mcuelenaere@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Microsoft Touch Mouse driver [was: Re: your mail]
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:38:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207223824.GA15836@polaris.bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3192F4.1040401@gmail.com>
> >>Any hints on how to do this in userspace? Of course I could hack up
> >>xf86-input-evdev, but I'd like to do this at the highest possible
> >>layer, ie the input subsystem.
> >The application you describe could well be implemented in the driver
> >you submitted; a simple handling of the MT data resulting in normal
> >input events.
>
> Yes, that was my initial idea. But as I had the impression that an
> userspace solution was preferred, I wondered how to solve that.
The conclusion was that as is, the device is unsuitable as an MT
device, needing either further in-kernel conversion or some other,
non-MT way of getting the data to userspace. Converting the data as
you describe, outputting normal input events, falls into the first
category.
Thanks,
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-01-25 13:26 ` your mail Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-25 14:09 ` Maurus Cuelenaere
2012-01-25 14:13 ` Fwd: " Maurus Cuelenaere
2012-01-25 15:00 ` [RFC] Microsoft Touch Mouse driver [was: Re: your mail] Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-29 21:19 ` Maurus Cuelenaere
2012-01-30 7:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-02-07 12:07 ` Maurus Cuelenaere
2012-02-07 16:12 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-02-07 21:09 ` Maurus Cuelenaere
2012-02-07 22:38 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2012-02-08 17:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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