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Hi Peter,

> it wasn't the first reaction. it was the third, after we hacked up
> synaptics [1], then libinput [2], both rather unsatisfactory. Not sure what
> chromeos does but they'll probably would need similar code. And any other
> users of the evdev API of course.

So if this approach did not work very well in userland, why would it work any
better in the kernel?

Henrik