From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@nokia.com>,
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>,
Benjamin Tissoires <tissoire@cena.fr>,
Stephane Chatty <chatty@enac.fr>,
Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev3)
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:47:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF818A6.6000801@euromail.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274539582.13705.132.camel@cndougla-ubuntu>
Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 12:38 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>> Getting serious, it is anyone's guess what will happen next, but I was picturing
>> a table, with a large multitouch screen and buttons along the side of the table.
>> Sure, we can do "ABS_BTN_0", "ABS_BTN_1", etc, but with slots in place, it seems
>> more natural to use something like "ABS_MT_BTN_X". While at it, REL_MT event
>> makes sense for those touchscreen techniques which register changes, like
>> acoustic pulse recognition.
s/ABS/KEY/
>
> Shouldn't this be handled in userspace? I don't think we want to be
> quirking drivers for instances where the same touchscreen is overlaid on
> buttons in some cases, but not in others. If we don't quirk, we'd need
> some mechanism to tell the driver about such buttons.
Perhaps you would like to clarify what "this" means here, and how you arrive at
quirking drivers.
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-21 15:55 [PATCH 1/2] input: mt: Introduce MT event slots (rev 4) Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 15:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev3) Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 16:30 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-21 16:36 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 16:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-21 16:56 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 17:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-21 17:29 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 17:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-21 17:49 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 3:52 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-22 7:08 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 9:11 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 9:33 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-22 10:38 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 14:46 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-22 17:47 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2010-05-22 20:52 ` Chase Douglas
2010-05-22 20:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-22 21:09 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 20:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-22 21:15 ` Henrik Rydberg
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