Messages in this thread | | | From | Giuseppe Bilotta <> | Subject | Re: SERIO_USERDEV patch for 2.6 | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:08:42 +0200 |
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Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:23 pm, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > echo "rawdev" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/driver > > > > > > or something alont these lines. At least that's my grand plan ;) > > > > I like this kind of idea. Many options should be settable this > > way (think for example about Synaptics and ALPS touchpad > > Yes, exactly, it will allow much more flexible option handling. Still, > as far as your examples go: > > > configurations: whether to use multipointers separately or > > together, > - userspace task - always persent separate devices and have application > (GPM or X) multiplex data together.
Ok, in this case your ALPS patch need a little working ;) (Last time I saw it it ORed the touchpad and stick values.)
> > (de)activation of tapping, > - may be userspace task - i.e can be done in userspace if device can > report BTN_TOUCH event. If not then kernel has to toggle it.
> > button remapping etc). > - userspace task
When you say "userspace task", are you saying that the filtering out of, say, BTN_TOUCH events should happen at a higher level than the kernel driver not reporting them at all? Say, in gpm?
-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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