Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:46:04 -0800 | From | Chase Douglas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] input: mt: Add hovering distance axis |
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On 12/07/2010 12:27 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > Touch devices capable of hovering, i.e., fingers detected a distance > from the surface, are not supported by the current input MT > protocol. This patch adds ABS_MT_DISTANCE, which may be used to > indicate the distance between the contact and the surface.
Have you given thought to calling it ABS_MT_Z instead? I have no real problem with ABS_MT_DISTANCE per se, but ABS_MT_Z is more clearly defined in my head. If I was new to MT development I may wonder if ABS_MT_DISTANCE had anything to do with distance between points or some other object.
-- Chase
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