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SubjectRe: input: mt: Software finger tracking in the kernel?
Hi Henrik,

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:58:35AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> there is an ongoing discussion about adding multitouch to X
> (http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-March/006206.html), which is
> beginning to take on more solid form.
>
> One of the suggestions emerging from that discussion is to add the software
> finger tracking to the kernel. Back in summer 2009 when I thought about this, I
> disregarded it as being too experimental. I have since then reconsidered,
> starting to think it really is the right place.
>
> The MT protocol allows applications to take advantage of multi-contact hardware,
> but leaves the problems of finger tracking and filtering to the user. Arguably,
> no application can make good use of MT without these, so the problem is pushed
> forward, in this case to evdev or equivalent.
>
> The knowledge of signal-to-noise ratios and prior input states resides in the
> kernel. Because of this, the finger matching and filtering would naturally
> reside within the kernel.
>
> So, if there were to appear patches to include matching in the input core, would
> you consider them? :-)
>

I am not sure if input core itself is the proper place to do such
thing, I'd envisioned something more like a library providing common
code that drivers could opt in to use, like we hane ff-memless for
memory-less force-feedback devices.

Does it make any sense? I guess post the skeleton of the code and we can
discuss further.

--
Dmitry


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