From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
Prior to commit 190d7f02ce8e ("HID: input: do not increment usages when
a duplicate is found") from the v4.18 kernel, HID used to shift the
event codes if a duplicate usage was found. This ended up in a situation
where a device would export a ton of ABS_MISC+n event codes, or a ton
of REL_MISC+n event codes.
This is now fixed, however userspace needs to detect those situation.
Fortunately, ABS_MISC+1 was never assigned a code, and so libinput
can detect fake multitouch devices from genuine ones by checking is
ABS_MISC+1 is set.
Now that we have REL_WHEEL_HI_RES, libinput won't be able to differentiate
true high res mice from some other device in a pre-v4.18 kernel.
Set in stone that the ABS_MISC+1 and REL_MISC+1 are reserved and should not
be used so userspace can properly work around those old kernels.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,
while reviewing my local tree, I realize that we might want to be able
to differentiate older kernels from new ones that export REL_WHEEL_HI_RES.
I know Dmitry was against adding several REL_MISC, so I hope just moving
REL_WHEEL_HI_RES by one and reserving the faulty event codes would be good
this time.
This patch applies on top of the branch for-4.20/logitech-highres from
Jiri's tree. It should go through Jiri's tree as well.
Cheers,
Benjamin
include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
index 29fb891ea337..30149939249a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
@@ -708,7 +708,12 @@
#define REL_DIAL 0x07
#define REL_WHEEL 0x08
#define REL_MISC 0x09
-#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0a
+/*
+ * 0x0a is reserved and should not be used.
+ * It was used by HID as REL_MISC+1 and usersapce needs to detect if
+ * the next REL_* event is correct or is just REL_MISC + n.
+ */
+#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0b
#define REL_MAX 0x0f
#define REL_CNT (REL_MAX+1)
@@ -745,6 +750,12 @@
#define ABS_MISC 0x28
+/*
+ * 0x29 is reserved and should not be used.
+ * It was used by HID as ABS_MISC+1 and usersapce needs to detect if
+ * the next ABS_* event is correct or is just ABS_MISC + n.
+ */
+
#define ABS_MT_SLOT 0x2f /* MT slot being modified */
#define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR 0x30 /* Major axis of touching ellipse */
#define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR 0x31 /* Minor axis (omit if circular) */
--
2.14.3
