On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:07:36PM -0800, Ping Cheng wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:20 PM >>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' >>Subject: Re: FW: RE: [Bug 537] wacom usb tablet uses wrong screen borders >> >> >>On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:09:13PM -0800, Ping Cheng wrote: >>>I think I can get rid of xf86Optrec.h in my code. But, data passing >>>between wacom driver and xsetwacom, a user space app,is required to >>>enable the user with live function changes. >> >>Can you give an example of how this is used? >> > >For example, my application needs to get the tablet's model from the driver. >But the driver only knows the model after it communicates with the tablet. >So, the model can not be assigned into an option in the config file. > >Basically, I don't have problem to sent data to the driver from client. I >use xfWcmDevChangeControl(), which is assigned as local's control_proc to >send data to the driver. I have problem to pass data from driver back to the >app. That's why I let driver write to a file so the app can read from there.
OK. >>There are definitely sufficient option handling interfaces available to >drivers so that you don't >>need to go digging into the OptionRec. It should be straightforward for you >to fix that. If you >>do happen to find something that isn't covered with the existing >interfaces, just let me know. > >I'll fix the problem and submit another patch. Should I still submit it as a >bug fix for [Bug 537] or create a new bug to submit this patch? Either way is OK. Just send a note here when you've done it. >>A more practical question I have is how broadly has this significantly >restructured version of >>the driver been tested, and does it support (and been tested) on all of the >hardware the old >>driver runs on (especially older hardware)? Given where we are in the >release cycle now, this is >>more important than the other issues. > >The refactored driver has been posted at http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net >since April 11, 2003. In addition to the use and testing from individual >users, it is also tested by many corporation users. We support all the >tablets that Wacom has released so far. OK, that's good to hear. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
