David, On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:09:36AM -0500, David Solda wrote: > Dmitry, > > The change you are referring to is the one that I was mentioning. > > The "absolute mode" is the only mode of our module that produces > multiple fingers. We do not communicate relative position for more > than one finger. The 8 byte packet is only used in the Absolute Mode, > you are right, however, this packet contains the necessary information > for determining the position of 2 fingers on the Trackpad. Hence the > reason why I stated that a Firmware change (complete architectural and > protocol rewrite) on our side would be need to comply with the 6 byte > maximum limit. > > So, the only method that I have available right now to upstream > something that wouldn't be rejected (as you stated below) is either an > architectural overhaul (which I cannot launch at this time), or single > finger position tracking only. > > Any other thoughts are appreciated, but the 8 bytes packet is needed > for our multi-finger detection and communication scheme that is > implemented. > First of all, please do not top-post. I thought I was clear that if you need 8-byte packets just change size in struct ps2dev to be 8 bytes instead of current 6 and as far as I can see that will solve your problem. There is no need to change firmware, re-architecture protocol or doing anything else. 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
