From: Harry Cutts <hcutts@chromium.org>
To: linux-input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>,
Harry Cutts <hcutts@chromium.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add the `REL_WHEEL_HI_RES` event code
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:30:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180823183057.247630-2-hcutts@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823183057.247630-1-hcutts@chromium.org>
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>
---
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..df024cb82829 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 256ths of a millimeter.
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)
--
2.18.0.1017.ga543ac7ca45-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-23 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 18:30 [PATCH 0/3] Add support for high-resolution scrolling on Logitech mice Harry Cutts
2018-08-23 18:30 ` Harry Cutts [this message]
2018-08-23 18:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add the `REL_WHEEL_HI_RES` event code Dmitry Torokhov
2018-08-23 18:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-23 19:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-08-28 9:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-08-28 17:49 ` Harry Cutts
2018-08-23 18:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] Create a utility class for counting scroll events Harry Cutts
2018-08-23 18:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] Enable high-resolution scrolling on Logitech mice Harry Cutts
2018-08-28 8:47 ` Benjamin Tissoires
[not found] ` <CA+jURcvguwXAVnpQ9+84QQOaJG74oeV8U4zzM1X0UabaY5DJBQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-08-30 7:18 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2018-08-30 20:37 ` Harry Cutts
[not found] ` <CAE7qMrrBdZSg1P+JTr9SA5a1ui-zdAmsg6pE-B1N5La_1WwvHw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-08-31 9:14 ` Nestor Lopez Casado
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