From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Henrik Rydberg" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/20] Input: bcm5974 - Drop pressure and width emulation Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:41:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20120913184144.GB3178@polaris.bitmath.org> References: <1346528835-363-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> <1346528835-363-14-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> <20120913065723.GH17105@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.20]:42242 "EHLO smtprelay-b11.telenor.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752333Ab2IMSe3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:34:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120913065723.GH17105@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jiri Kosina , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:57:24PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:47:08PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > > The ABS_PRESSURE and ABS_WIDTH have special scales, and were initially > > added solely for thumb and palm recognition in the synaptics driver. > > This never really get used, however, and userspace quickly moved to > > MT solutions instead. This patch drops the unused events. > > How can you know that? There could still be people using ST emulation > with this device. I think we should keep it. Alright, maybe we need to carry this still. Probability = macbook * old_userland * new_kernel * working_synaptics * tuned_palm_parameters, must be a pretty large number. ;-) Henrik