On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:24:34AM -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:04:56 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:24:48PM -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > If the handler that injected an event is the same, > > > just skip the filter, but allow the handler->event() > > > routine to be called. This allows evdev to be able to > > > be used to loopback events. > > > > Why is it needed? Could you please give some examples? > > > > Thanks. > > > > We have a customer who has a touchscreen device which sends > a bitmap into a gesture engine, which then interprets that > result and feeds it back into the kernel through a virtual > input driver that X is listening to. That really should be done though uinput. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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
