From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] input: Add INPUT_PROP_POINTING_STICK property Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:45:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20140908214508.GE24033@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1409661804-10489-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:33682 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754254AbaIHVpL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:45:11 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id fa1so3323784pad.30 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1409661804-10489-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Hans de Goede Cc: Peter Hutterer , Benjamin Tissoires , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:43:22PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > It is useful for userspace to know that they're not dealing with a regular > mouse but rather with a pointing stick (e.g. a trackpoint) so that userspace > can e.g. automatically enable middle button scrollwheel emulation. > > It is impossible to tell the difference from the evdev info without resorting > to putting a list of device / driver names in userspace, this is undesirable. > > These patches add a property which allows userspace to see if a device is a > pointing stick, and set it on all the pointing stick drivers. > > Note these patch apply on top of the current dtor/input.git for-linus > branch. Specifically they depend upon a2418fc4a13 (Input: elantech - add > support for trackpoint found on some v3 models). Applied both, thank you. -- Dmitry