On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jason Gerecke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dmitry Torokhov > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, October 03, 2013 01:53:10 PM Ping Cheng wrote: > >> This series of models added a hardware switch to turn touch > >> data on/off. To report the state of the switch, SW_TOUCH_ENABLED > >> is added in include/uapi/linux/input.h. > > > > > > Hmm, should we just postpone creating of input device until touch is enabled > > instead? > > > > -- > > Dmitry > > -- > > The idea of SW_TOUCH_ENABLED is to allow userspace to be a bit more > helpful and display a "disabled" message rather than disappearing the > device entirely when the switch is 'off'. In theory this could also be > achieved through the libwacom support library (by scanning the list of > event devices to see if any of the expected interfaces are missing), > but the approach is somewhat fragile and I'm not convinced that > linking the switch to device creation/removal is correct.
Good point, Jason. I thought Dmitry suggested to have SW_TOUCH_ENABLED accepted before adding new devices. My misunderstanding did bring nice feedbacks from Chris and Peter. Thank you guys. Dmitry, If you meant to check the status of the touch switch before creating touch interface, that would also mean we need to delete the interface if the switch is turned off. Otherwise, we are not supporting it consistently. However, the switch is only an indicator of whether tablet will post touch events or not. The actual touch device is not removed. It is always there and connected to the system no matter what state the switch is in. So, dynamically creating and removal of touch interface can complicate user land support. Does this make sense to you? Ping -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
