On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Some devices provides the actual timestamp (hid_dg_scan_time in win8 ones)
> computed by the hardware itself. This value is global to the frame and is
> not specific to the multitouch protocol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>

I take it will go through Jiri's tree, right?

> ---
>  Documentation/input/event-codes.txt | 11 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/input.h               |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt 
> b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> index 53305bd..f1ea2c6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> @@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ EV_MSC:
>  EV_MSC events are used for input and output events that do not fall under 
> other
>  categories.
>  
> +A few EV_MSC codes have special meaning:
> +
> +* MSC_TIMESTAMP:
> +  - Used to report the number of microseconds since the last reset. This 
> event
> +    should be coded as an uint32 value, which is allowed to wrap around with
> +    no special consequence. It is assumed that the time difference between 
> two
> +    consecutive events is reliable on a reasonable time scale (hours).
> +    A reset to zero can happen, in which case the time since the last event 
> is
> +    unknown.  If the device does not provide this information, the driver 
> must
> +    not provide it to user space.
> +
>  EV_LED:
>  ----------
>  EV_LED events are used for input and output to set and query the state of
> diff --git a/include/linux/input.h b/include/linux/input.h
> index ba48743..25354f3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/input.h
> +++ b/include/linux/input.h
> @@ -858,6 +858,7 @@ struct input_keymap_entry {
>  #define MSC_GESTURE          0x02
>  #define MSC_RAW                      0x03
>  #define MSC_SCAN             0x04
> +#define MSC_TIMESTAMP                0x05
>  #define MSC_MAX                      0x07
>  #define MSC_CNT                      (MSC_MAX+1)
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.0
> 

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Dmitry
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