[PATCH] touchscreen-meddling.patch

[andrzej zaborowski]

2008/6/19 Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com>:
> | Like this
> http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/tslib/trunk/tslib/plugins/variance.c?rev=34&view=markup
> | ?
> |
> | This is really not a coding issue, it's a configuration issue in our
> | tslib config.  You can try to hack it into the kernel obviously (like
> | e.g. Nokia), duplicating existing solutions, and you'll get frowned
> | upon when trying to upstream (like e.g. Nokia).  If it must be in the
>
> There is configurable averaging built into that ts driver before
> yesterday, I just extended it a bit.

Which probably shouldn't be there.

>  Driver-based filtering serves a
> useful purpose, it reduces the datarate into the input device by a
> factor of 32 or 64 or whatever you set it at.  So this and tslib are not
> the same deal.  Tslib NEVER got raw samples.

Right, and it was chosen (even in 2001, when machines were slower, by
RMK) that tslib should be getting the raw samples.  With the overhead
it gives - this is accepted.

The question really is doing things the linux way or only basing on it
(tomtom/zaurus/skype way) although it's so small in this case it's
probably a bike-shed discussion on my part.

>
> As for getting frowned upon, my dear Andrzej I get frowned upon if I get
> up in the morning.

Awww :)

>  I might as well do something effective and maintain
> it myself and get frowned upon than do nothing.  Besides, I can't use
> our wonderful flawless Openmoko build+packaging system to work on tslib
> because it can't cope with exotic hosts like Fedora 9.

You can use the same excuse to build the dialer and a minesweeper game
into the linux kernel (I think there was a project doing that
somewhere) - and you might even likely get something more reliable and
usable and faster than the whole kernel + userspace approach, this has
been discussed all too often already.

But I share the pain - I've never used OE or MokoMakefile yet, I just
didn't ever need to (build a distro to cross-compile a single
program), I would have to start from reading the basics howto if I
wanted to use OE/bitbake now.

(variance plugin is already there fortunately and it only takes one
line in the config file, no compiling)
Regards