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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Cc: Charles Mooney <charliemooney@google.com>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>,
	Linux Input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: event-codes.txt: clarify we want BTN_TOOL_<name> on proximity
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:16:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160406171613.GA38452@dtor-ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160224041203.GA32566@jelly.redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:12:03PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> This explicitly states behavior we already use for some touchpads and tablet
> devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>

Applied, thank you.

> ---
>  Documentation/input/event-codes.txt | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> index 3f0f5ce..36ea940 100644
> --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> @@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ A few EV_ABS codes have special meanings:
>      proximity of the device and while the value of the BTN_TOUCH code is 0. If
>      the input device may be used freely in three dimensions, consider ABS_Z
>      instead.
> +  - BTN_TOOL_<name> should be set to 1 when the tool comes into detectable
> +    proximity and set to 0 when the tool leaves detectable proximity.
> +    BTN_TOOL_<name> signals the type of tool that is currently detected by the
> +    hardware and is otherwise independent of ABS_DISTANCE and/or BTN_TOUCH.
>  
>  * ABS_MT_<name>:
>    - Used to describe multitouch input events. Please see
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 

-- 
Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-09 21:56 Question about ABS_DISTANCE's intended usage Charles Mooney
2016-02-18 18:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-02-21 22:04   ` Peter Hutterer
2016-02-22 16:35     ` Charles Mooney
2016-02-22 22:04       ` Peter Hutterer
2016-02-23 22:02         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-02-23 22:39           ` Peter Hutterer
2016-02-23 23:08             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-02-24  4:12               ` [PATCH] Documentation: event-codes.txt: clarify we want BTN_TOOL_<name> on proximity Peter Hutterer
2016-04-06  5:09                 ` Peter Hutterer
2016-04-06 17:16                 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2016-02-29 16:16               ` Question about ABS_DISTANCE's intended usage Charles Mooney
2016-02-23 22:42           ` Henrik Rydberg

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