Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Henrik, > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:52:57PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: >> These patches are in response to the discussion about input state >> retrieval. >> >> The current EVIOCGABS method does not work with MT slots. These >> patches provides a mechanism where a slot is first selected via a call >> to EVIOCSABS, after which the corresponding MT events can be extracted >> with calls to EVIOCGABS. >> >> The symmetric operation, to set the MT state via EVIOCSABS, seems to >> violate input data integrity, and is therefore not implemented. >> > > This looks sane, however the question remains - is there any users for > this data? Like I mentioned, I can see the need to fetch state of > switches and ranges of absolute axis, and even non-multitouch ABS values > (due to the fact that some input devices, like sliders, may stay in a > certain position for long periods of time), but I expect multitouch data > to be "refreshed" very quickly. > > Thanks. > There were some voices addressing this issue, and the patches are here, available for whomever to pick up. Drop them if you wish, I will not send them anew. Cheers, Henrik -- 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
