Hi Henrik, On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:26:31AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > > Adds a helper function to send end touch events for active tracking ids. > > And also implements it in egalax driver. > > What problematic scenario is this supposed to solve? > > The 'release on suspend' is only an approximation to the 'close > laptop' scenario, it is certainly not correct in the coffee table > case, Why would it not be correct for coffee table? Do we expect the touches to remain valid while the device is asleep? > for instance. Instead of > hardcoding this in the kernel, userland can easily detect long intervals > directly using the event time. But with slots it is not only problem with old events being sent out later, it is that we have mix of old (pre-sleep) and new state. > > Unless there is already a reasonable mechanism in your user > application which deals with cases like this but fails to account for > your particular problem scenario, the patch will not be applied. > We do that for keys (release them when we transition to system sleep) and I think it might be worthwhile to do the same for touch data. 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
