Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751634Ab2KIIpf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:45:35 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:55438 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751126Ab2KIIpd (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:45:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:45:27 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: Henrik Rydberg , Jiri Kosina , Stephane Chatty , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/13] HID: introduce Scan Time Message-ID: <20121109084527.GA15371@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1352306256-12180-1-git-send-email-benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> <1352306256-12180-13-git-send-email-benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1352306256-12180-13-git-send-email-benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1897 Lines: 45 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 > --- > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/