Re: mousedev patch

[Charles D. <cd...@mv...>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:00:08PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> By the way, now that we have tsdev, perhaps support for abs values
> in mousedev could be dropped completely, because X will be able to
> read even say USB tablets via the tsdev device as absolute values?

I'd rather not do this yet -- some applications don't support /dev/ts
properly, and it's extremely useful to be able to use either driver
with either kind of input device (in the case where one has a system
with both a mouse and a touchscreen attached).

This will be less acute when a single interface is available which
provides applications with all available information (such as James's
suggestion of an evdev mixer which adds a field giving the minor
number of the evdev device correspending with the source).