On 12/13/2010 03:50 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:28:28AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: >> This patch adds BTN_TOOL_QUINTAP to be used by hardware reporting >> finger counts different from the number of MT contacts. > > I must say this is quite ugly, but so is introducing ABS_CONTACT_COUNT > or similar, except that the latter is more extensible so if > manufacturers decide to report 6, 7, 8 fingers (but not their > coordinates) we won't have to breed BTN_TOOL_xxxTAPs... > > But let me ask you this: do we know what to do with 5 fingers? How do we > plan to react to such gestures? Maybe the best option is simply ignore > it and don't report anything if there are no userspace consumers? I agree - let's put the bar at four fingers for special solutions. Dropped. Thanks, 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
