Re: [RFC] Reporting "orientation changed" event

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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:37:55AM -0700, Andy Ross wrote:

> How would that work?  If it's an extra sysfs node, it would require an
> extra file descriptor in the reader.  And if it's an event inside the
> input stream, that would require the reader implement handling to throttle
> the polling rate.  The point here was to avoid having to poll the
> (noisy) accelerometer stream just for gross orientation changes.

Yes, so the accelerometer driver should (in-kernel) know that a coarse 
orientation event has occured and then send an appropriate uevent to 
userspace indiciating that it has new data.

> http://build.meego.com/package/files?package=sensorfw-pegatron&project=Trunk

Yeah, that's absolutely dreadful. Don't do that.

> Does it really need to be "fixed"?  If this were a whole class of
> hardware, then I guess I'd agree.  But right now it's one quirky
> device.

I'm going to NAK anything that reports "Coarse orientation change" to 
userspace without providing any context.

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