I don't know but it seems like a decision is being made here without future possibility of change in the user land. What if someone wants to create an application which uses pen+touch input like this one ? http://goo.gl/ydkl The paper is here : http://www.billbuxton.com/manual%20deskterity.pdf But I confirm that the use case where disabling touch input when using the pen is more common. i -- 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