Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:07:53 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Staging:IIO: New ABI |
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> > > Nope. And I am also interested in this since I am sittign on a bunch of > > > accelerometers, magnetometers, etc drivers that are trying to plug into > > > input sysbsystem and quite unsure what to do with them. > > > > > > It was OK whch HDAPS and friends when they were using input for > > > secondary, toyish purposes, but these new drivers trying to use input > > > devnts as primary API and I am unsure if it is the best solution. > > > Accelerometer might be used as an input device but not always an input > > > device. > > > > Yeah, I see it using a joystick interface, which might be acceptable for > > "toy" devices like you say. > > > > But for "real" ones, we should do something else. > > > > Maybe, for devices that are going to be used by x.org, like the "toy" > > ones, we stick with the current input interface, but for others, we use > > a "real" interface, probably through hwmon, so that users can get the > > real data out in a consistant manner. > > I'd rather have all of them use real interface and then have a bridge > to input module to enable toyish mode (unless the device in question > is really truly an input device).
Well, if you look at the PDA class devices, they really use magnetometers and accelerometers for input. I guess we should look at better support in input... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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