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From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: mt: Add hovering distance axis
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:46:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFFC45C.2040107@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291710468-2022-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se>

On 12/07/2010 12:27 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Touch devices capable of hovering, i.e., fingers detected a distance
> from the surface, are not supported by the current input MT
> protocol. This patch adds ABS_MT_DISTANCE, which may be used to
> indicate the distance between the contact and the surface.

Have you given thought to calling it ABS_MT_Z instead? I have no real
problem with ABS_MT_DISTANCE per se, but ABS_MT_Z is more clearly
defined in my head. If I was new to MT development I may wonder if
ABS_MT_DISTANCE had anything to do with distance between points or some
other object.

-- Chase

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-07  8:27 [PATCH] input: mt: Add hovering distance axis Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-07 10:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 17:46 ` Chase Douglas [this message]
2010-12-08 18:05   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-08 18:16     ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-08 18:20     ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-08 18:40       ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-12-08 23:31         ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-08 23:54           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-09  0:08             ` Ping Cheng
2010-12-09  0:13               ` Dmitry Torokhov

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