On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:57:22PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I see there are 2 possible solutions. If I understand what Vojtech wrote > regarding synaptics driver the track stick (or other pass-through device) > is best implemented as a separate serio. So you could have your touchpad > in absolute mode and stick as a separate device in native relative.
And if a separate serio is not possible, then at least a separate input device. It definitely should not be mixed together into one input device when in reality there are two. > Other way is to check (in your userspace driver) whether your motion > packets contains absolute packets and if they are present discard any > relative events in this batch. > > Hmmm... what if we introduce something like sythrelbit[NBITS(REL__MAX)] > for passing synthesized relative events and have mousedev use values in > following order of precedence: > - absbit - lowest priority > - synthrelbit > - relbit - highest. > > What you think? ... why? I really don't see a reason why we should generate any synthetic events in the kernel. Not at the device driver level, not at the handler level. > > A device should present raw events. Whatever the user says to the > > device should come out eventX uninterpreted. > > mousedev should interpret what it can and present this out > > /dev/psaux. As it can do limited interpretation of ABS events, it > > should. > > The thing is that the result is not useable with touchpads right now. > It just does not work :( There exists an XFree86 driver that uses eventX for Synaptics. Same thing hopefully will be added to GPM soon. AND, I hope I'll be able to get rid of the relativization code in mousedev soon, too, because it's beyond ugly, as soon as a similar XFree86 driver is written for 'generic tablet's. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
