Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:26:59 +0100 | | From | Henrik Rydberg <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] Alternative approach to MT_TOOL_ENVELOPE |
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>> Ping has touched upon this subject as well, from the pen & touch perspective. >> Generally, some ABS axes are actually enumerations, for which we have no >> direct abstraction. If we had a way to declare the used values for such >> enumerations, it would resolve these and possibly other issues.
> I think that presence of pen/touch can be detected by having > BTN_TOOL_PEN and BTN_TOOL_FINGER. However in this case the tool is > finger, so I do not think we should introduce BTN_TOOL_ENVELOPE. Maybe > this is another case where we should employ the proposed device flags?
Yes. Having something like INPUT_QUIRK_SEMI_MT might be enough, and we could drop the whole MT_TOOL_ENVELOPE circus. Chase, Peter, Chris, would you be comfortable with such a solution?
> Anyway, it looks like we have a few concerns with current > MT_TOOL_ENVELOPE so I want to rewind my 'next' branch.
Yep. Should I also take the opportunity to sync from -rc1 instead, and fold the cleanup patches into the appropriate places?
Thanks, Henrik
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