serial touchscreen and inputattach

serial touchscreen and inputattach

[Markus Heidelberg]

Hello,

I'm currently working on a serial touchscreen driver and have some questions.

What's the rule for creating a new name for serio protocol in serio.h for use
in serio_device_id.proto and input_dev.id.vendor? Can I just take a free
number? I guess then I should take the next one (currently 0x37 after
SERIO_ZHENHUA), however there are some gaps in the list.

Is there an official version of inputattach? I found different sources. The
last change at [1] is about 2 years ago. At [2] there is a broken CVS link to
[1]. The inputattach tool in buildroot's tslib package is derived from [1] with
some minor changes. The inputattach from Debian's joystick package is derived
from a three years old version of [1], the tool from Gentoo's joystick package
is the same as in [1].

So it seems as if [1] is quite official, because everything is pointing to it.
But there is another inputattach at [3] with a reworked code base, which is
only 1 year old and supports some more devices, mainly touchscreens.

Or is there another preferred way beside inputattach to bind the touchscreen to
its driver and inputattach is obsolete?

[1] http://linuxconsole.cvs.sourceforge.net/linuxconsole/ruby/utils/
[2] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/input/
[3] http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dtor/

Markus

Re: serial touchscreen and inputattach

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:

Hi,

 Markus> Is there an official version of inputattach? I found
 Markus> different sources. The last change at [1] is about 2 years
 Markus> ago. At [2] there is a broken CVS link to [1]. The
 Markus> inputattach tool in buildroot's tslib package is derived from
 Markus> [1] with some minor changes. The inputattach from Debian's
 Markus> joystick package is derived from a three years old version of
 Markus> [1], the tool from Gentoo's joystick package is the same as
 Markus> in [1].

In buildroot we actually also have the Debian version
(package/input-tools) to add to the confusion ;)

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

Re: serial touchscreen and inputattach

[Markus Heidelberg]

Peter Korsgaard, 15.06.2008:
> >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
> 
>  Markus> Is there an official version of inputattach? I found
>  Markus> different sources. The last change at [1] is about 2 years
>  Markus> ago. At [2] there is a broken CVS link to [1]. The
>  Markus> inputattach tool in buildroot's tslib package is derived from
>  Markus> [1] with some minor changes. The inputattach from Debian's
>  Markus> joystick package is derived from a three years old version of
>  Markus> [1], the tool from Gentoo's joystick package is the same as
>  Markus> in [1].
> 
> In buildroot we actually also have the Debian version
> (package/input-tools) to add to the confusion ;)

Yes, I know. That was just the one I was aware of without mentioning it in my
mail, because it was identical to the Debian version.
So nothing was added to the confusion, but thanks for trying it :)