On 08/19/2010 11:45 PM, Stéphane Chatty wrote: > > Le 17 août 10 à 11:56, Henrik Rydberg a écrit : > >> >> Ah yes, the pointer emulation via ABS_X/Y. My personal view is that >> pointer >> emulation is a gesture, and thus best implemented in userspace. > > I agree 100% with you on this (well, I'd rather say that gestures and > single touch emulation are two cases of input interpretation, but that's > just my academical bias). > > However this issue was discussed last year on this list and as far as I > understood it was decided that single touch emulation was required in > the kernel for some time... At that time, maybe the alternatives were not as clear as they are now. :-) I think what it all means is that over time, we will see less and less of the ABS_X/Y, since we will eventually stop adding it, and hardware inevitably ages. 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
