Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755507AbZGOPdo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:33:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755435AbZGOPdn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:33:43 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:41893 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755423AbZGOPdm (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:33:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=TGm2EZukrc91mOiqXxKR1jeDH3+h4Vb4R+hdz0BqNoWkTwyZOo2B0lFdq85E0C5Hn ULmBLVyMyXtwd7e19JPcg== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090715152702.GB21611@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> References: <20090714100634.GA4054@elf.ucw.cz> <20090714175201.GB14661@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> <20090715134855.GB2538@elf.ucw.cz> <20090715152702.GB21611@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:33:38 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Support for synaptic touchscreen in HTC dream From: Brian Swetland To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Pavel Machek , "Arve Hj?nnev?g" , kernel list , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1013 Lines: 25 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:48:55PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >> On Tue 2009-07-14 10:52:12, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> > >> > ABS_HAT is pretty unusual for a touchscreen... >> >> It is trying to do something useful for multitouch. People actually >> use multitouch on HTC dream. I guess I can strip it from version being >> merged... > > What about converting it to emit ABS_MT_* events added specifically > for the multitouch protocol? I believe at the time the driver was written, those events did not exist. If the input framework has more appropriate events for the "2nd finger" (which is how synaptics represents MT on this panel), we should definitely switch to them. Brian -- 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/