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From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
To: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>,
	linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Alternative approach to MT_TOOL_ENVELOPE
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:35:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0A23C6.7000308@bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D092E34.8060002@canonical.com>

>

> I do think that MT is complex enough that related documentation should
> be in multi-touch-protocol.txt, though. Anywhere I discussed MT in
> evdev-codes.txt I referred the reader to the other file. Henrik, does
> that sound good to you?


Yep, thanks.

>> I think it will be invaluable to document this stuff for driver
>> writers and apps but I'm not sure yet what level needs to be enforced.
> 
> That's the biggest issue I see right now. Do we want black and white
> specificity? For example, using terms like "must" and "may not" etc. Or
> do we want the document to merely hold best practices while not
> proscribing exact details? I think even with exact details we can loosen
> them if needed, but that has its own can of worms.


It will most likely need to be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Thanks,
Henrik

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-15 10:26 [PATCH 0/4] Alternative approach to MT_TOOL_ENVELOPE Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-15 17:40 ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-15 19:36   ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-15 21:13     ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-16 14:41       ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-15 20:41   ` Chris Bagwell
2010-12-15 21:08     ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-16 14:35       ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2010-12-16  0:19 ` Peter Hutterer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-12-14 21:21 Chase Douglas
2010-12-14 21:38 ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-14 22:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-15  0:21   ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-15  1:37     ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-15  7:25       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-15 17:31         ` Chase Douglas
2010-12-15 20:25           ` Chris Bagwell

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