From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Tissoires <btissoir@redhat.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] input: Add INPUT_PROP_POINTING_STICK property
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:45:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908214508.GE24033@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409661804-10489-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com>
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:43:22PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is useful for userspace to know that they're not dealing with a regular
> mouse but rather with a pointing stick (e.g. a trackpoint) so that userspace
> can e.g. automatically enable middle button scrollwheel emulation.
>
> It is impossible to tell the difference from the evdev info without resorting
> to putting a list of device / driver names in userspace, this is undesirable.
>
> These patches add a property which allows userspace to see if a device is a
> pointing stick, and set it on all the pointing stick drivers.
>
> Note these patch apply on top of the current dtor/input.git for-linus
> branch. Specifically they depend upon a2418fc4a13 (Input: elantech - add
> support for trackpoint found on some v3 models).
Applied both, thank you.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 12:43 [PATCH 0/2] input: Add INPUT_PROP_POINTING_STICK property Hans de Goede
2014-09-02 12:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Hans de Goede
2014-09-02 14:34 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2014-09-03 3:18 ` Peter Hutterer
2014-09-02 12:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] input/mouse: Add missing POINTER / DIRECT properties to a bunch of drivers Hans de Goede
2014-09-02 14:38 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2014-09-03 3:21 ` Peter Hutterer
2014-09-02 12:55 ` [PATCH 0/2] input: Add INPUT_PROP_POINTING_STICK property David Herrmann
2014-09-02 14:34 ` Benjamin Tissoires
[not found] ` <5405D6D4.4070406@redhat.com>
2014-09-02 14:50 ` David Herrmann
2014-09-03 3:24 ` Peter Hutterer
2014-09-08 21:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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