Hey, On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 23:44 +0000, Roderick.Colenbrander@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to share a proposal to extend evdev with support for > pressure sensitive "analog" buttons. It is a feature common on gaming > peripherals (arcade sticks, gamepads, wii guitar) as well now on > analog > keyboards such as Wooting One / Two keyboards on which every button > is > both analog and digital (so ~100 analog keys). > <snip> > > This is an initial proposal to address limitations in evdev to > improve > device support in existing drivers such as hid-sony, hid-betopff, > psxpad-spi, hid-wii and probably others as well as new devices such > as > Wooting keyboards Are there already user-space APIs, such as SDL, or the Steam joypad user-space gunk, that support those types of input (even if that's not implemented on Linux yet)? What do those user-space APIs look like? Would they be a good fit for this kernel API, and would the chatter/amount of data to process be too much? Cheers -- 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
