Hi Benjamin,

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:37:35PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Win 8 digitizer devices provides the actual scan time computed by the
> hardware itself. The value is global to the frame and is not specific
> to the multitouch protocol (though only touch, not pen, should use it
> according to the specification).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoi...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/input/event-codes.txt | 9 +++++++++
>  drivers/hid/hid-input.c             | 4 ++++
>  include/linux/hid.h                 | 1 +
>  include/linux/input.h               | 1 +
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt 
> b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> index 53305bd..80c06e5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt
> @@ -174,6 +174,15 @@ A few EV_ABS codes have special meanings:
>      the input device may be used freely in three dimensions, consider ABS_Z
>      instead.
>  
> +* ABS_SCAN_TIME:
> +  - 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 the user space.
> +

This should not be an absolute event but rather EV_MSC/MSC_TIMESTAMP.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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