On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:55:32PM +0100, Harald Albrecht wrote: > I would like to improve support for the multimedia controllers from > Contour company, as there currently get relative events swalled by input.c. > > The background: Contour seems to have messed up the USB HID descriptions > of their multimedia controller devices in that these report to use > relative axis when in fact they are creating EV_REL events with absolute > coordinate values. The problem here is, that mapping these events to > EV_ABS will break all existing software that supports these devices. > > Unfortunately, drivers/input/input.c correctly swallows any relative > events with a relative movement value of zero... > > case EV_REL: > if (is_event_supported(code, dev->relbit, REL_MAX) && value) > disposition = INPUT_PASS_TO_HANDLERS; > break; > > Simply removing the "&& value" would most probably have adverse effect > on many software. Unfortunately, there is yet no "quirks" handling > present in input.c. > > How can I add such quirks handling in a way that would be acceptable by > the kernel maintainers? The people on linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (now cc:ed) might know more... -- 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
