Hi Brian, On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brian Swetland<swetland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Dmitry > Torokhov<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:48:55PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> On Tue 2009-07-14 10:52:12, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>> > >>> > ABS_HAT is pretty unusual for a touchscreen... >>> >>> It is trying to do something useful for multitouch. People actually >>> use multitouch on HTC dream. I guess I can strip it from version being >>> merged... >> >> What about converting it to emit ABS_MT_* events added specifically >> for the multitouch protocol? > > I believe at the time the driver was written, those events did not > exist. If the input framework has more appropriate events for the > "2nd finger" (which is how synaptics represents MT on this panel), we > should definitely switch to them. > Yes, MT events were added recently and they are working. Please check this demo based on MT events. http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linux-multitouch-technology-demod/ Also, please confirm if polling mode is really used in some h/w configuration, if not as said by Dmitry, we can remove it and do clean integration with threaded irq. -- ---Trilok Soni http://triloksoni.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/triloksoni -- 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
