On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:25:38PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 22:32, Stéphane Chatty <chatty@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Le 26 sept. 2011 à 16:47, Jiri Kosina a écrit : > > > >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > >> > >>>>> These two patches finally enable the kernel to handle multitouch devices correctly. > >>>>> If a device presents in its report descriptors the usage Contact ID, then it is considered as > >>>>> a multitouch device and handled by hid-multitouch. > >>>> > >>>> Hi Banjamin, > >>>> > >>>> thanks a lot for working on this. I have now queued the patches in my > >>>> tree. > >>> > >>> Hi Benjamin, > >>> > >>> Late as it seems, here are a couple of questions: > >>> > >>> 1. How was this tested? By removing all white-listed devices in > >>> hid-multitouch.c to see if the usual suspects are still picked up? > > Well, nearly all the devices that has been included since March passed > the first patch (I had it in my queue since a long time). > For now, only Stantum products are known to not work with this patch > if we remove them from hid_have_special_driver. I see, thanks. > As for the blacklist problem, we also know that this is not very > beautiful, but we are working on a better solution. For the moment, it > just allows people to have their device working out of the box > (crossing fingers). It is great that you share a working solution for most cases, but it does not look like mainline material yet, does it. A clean solution should probably modify the driver selection mechanism on a deeper level, or at least make use of the current whitelist. 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
