Re: mousedev patch

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:20:55PM -0700, Charles Duffy wrote:

> 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).

Do we really need an evdev mixer? Isn't it easier to just try to open
and read all the evdev devices?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs