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Date:   Tue, 4 Sep 2018 16:28:24 +1000
From:   Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
To:     Harry Cutts <hcutts@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] Add the `REL_WHEEL_HI_RES` event code
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 02:56:18PM -0700, Harry Cutts wrote:
> This event code represents scroll reports from high-resolution wheels,
> and will be used by future patches in this series. See the linux-input
> "Reporting high-resolution scroll events" thread [0] for more details.
> 
> [0]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg57380.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harry Cutts <hcutts@chromium.org>

looks good to me, thanks. For the archives, the libinput issue filed for
this is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues/130

Cheers,
   Peter

> ---
> 
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  Documentation/input/event-codes.rst    | 11 ++++++++++-
>  include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst b/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> index a8c0873beb95..cef220c176a4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> @@ -190,7 +190,16 @@ A few EV_REL codes have special meanings:
>  * REL_WHEEL, REL_HWHEEL:
>  
>    - These codes are used for vertical and horizontal scroll wheels,
> -    respectively.
> +    respectively. The value is the number of "notches" moved on the wheel, the
> +    physical size of which varies by device. For high-resolution wheels (which
> +    report multiple events for each notch of movement, or do not have notches)
> +    this may be an approximation based on the high-resolution scroll events.
> +
> +* REL_WHEEL_HI_RES:
> +
> +  - If a vertical scroll wheel supports high-resolution scrolling, this code
> +    will be emitted in addition to REL_WHEEL. The value is the (approximate)
> +    distance travelled by the user's finger, in microns.
>  
>  EV_ABS
>  ------
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> index 53fbae27b280..dad8d3890a3a 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> @@ -708,6 +708,7 @@
>  #define REL_DIAL		0x07
>  #define REL_WHEEL		0x08
>  #define REL_MISC		0x09
> +#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES	0x0a
>  #define REL_MAX			0x0f
>  #define REL_CNT			(REL_MAX+1)
>  
> -- 
> 2.19.0.rc0.228.g281dcd1b4d0-goog
>