On 03/15/11 06:02, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:47:51PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >> From: Joseph Lai <joseph_lai@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This driver is registered as an input device with sysfs control >> interface, but it still can output 3 axes data in non-interrupt mode. >> >> This is primarily an input device but can also be used as for other things. >> It thus exposes the power control (so you can keep power on when you want) and >> x/y/z co-ordinates directly. > > I'd be more happy if it was just an input device. If non-wired interrupt > is a common case then we should probably add polled input device mode, > but we certainly should not register completely non-functional input > device as the driver does now. > > We also have a way of retrieving current (or rather most recent) > coordinates via EVIOCGABS so I am not sure why we want the sysfs way of > retrieving coordinates as well. > > Regarding power mode - I really believe that this should be done on the > driver core level instead of implementing "manual off" in every single > driver out there. definitely. Know anyone with the time / inclination to get that added? -- 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
