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Subject: Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))
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On 7/4/05, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> Generel observation on this driver - why isn't it just contained in user
> space? You need to do the monitoring and sending of ide commands from
> there anyways, I don't see the point of putting it in the kernel.
> 

Can't the accelerometer be used as an input device in addition to just
being a "about to fall detector?"

I seem to remember games where the the input method involved tilting
the device in the direction you want a marble to roll or something
like that.