From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754002AbYIXKa7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:30:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751987AbYIXKat (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:30:49 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:53921 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751648AbYIXKat (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:30:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:30:40 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hauberg Cc: Oliver Neukum , Ondrej Zary , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbtouchscreen, 2.6.25 Message-ID: <20080924103040.GA13392@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200809231051.14016.linux@rainbow-software.org> <200809231613.41905.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:04:55AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Obviously that depends on how you define "better" :-) The problem I'm > facing is that with the X driver there is no way to change calibration > without restarting X several times, which isn't acceptable for the > application we're developing. Sure, I could fix the X driver to allow > run-time changes to the calibration parameters, but that's a very > large task. This is the sort of thing that input device properties were added for. If you're able to use 1.5 of the X server, it's not a huge body of work to add this functionality. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org