Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263449AbTFKSUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263503AbTFKSUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:20:30 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:18354 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263449AbTFKSU3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:20:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:34:08 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Peter Osterlund Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Vojtech Pavlik , Joseph Fannin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 Message-ID: <20030611203408.A6961@ucw.cz> References: <20030611170246.A4187@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from petero2@telia.com on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:16:13PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 31 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > The w value is somewhat special and not really a real axis. According > to the Synaptics TouchPad Interfacing Guide > (http://www.synaptics.com/decaf/utilities/ACF126.pdf), W is defined as > follows: > > Value Needed capability Interpretation > W = 0 capMultiFinger Two fingers on the pad. > W = 1 capMultiFinger Three or more fingers on the pad. > W = 2 capPen Pen (instead of finger) on the pad. > W = 3 Reserved. > W = 4-7 capPalmDetect Finger of normal width. > W = 8-14 capPalmDetect Very wide finger or palm. > W = 15 capPalmDetect Maximum reportable width; extremely > wide contact. > > Is there a better way than using ABS_MISC to pass the W information to > user space? We should probably add an EV_MSC, MSC_GESTURE event type for this. That'll be the cleanest solution. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - 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/