On Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:18 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>> Hmm, what axis will they be reporting though? Seems like very >>> specialized [ab]use if they all share the same input device... >> >> Each encoder reports as a unique axis. They just all share one >> input device. >> > > Well, if they truly represent X and Y axes then sharing the same > input device is proper. However if you are using single input > just to simplify userspace application and events reported do > not really represent movement for the axis specified - that would > be bad. I agree. Trying to report two of the same axis over a single input would be a major abuse of the api. Reporting multiple axis' over a single input should be doable. I just need to work out how to modify the rotary_encoder driver to support it... Thanks, Hartley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
