[PATCH 0/3] Make the touchscreen filtering optional.

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Wed Jan 28 22:40:21 CET 2009


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

| the kernel should just send out the unfiltered evens and let userspace
| decide what to do with it. And if userspace decides to do

Nonsense, even a floppy driver does retries on bad data before giving up
to userspace.

|  So let's look forward and find a better solution to the "compose a
| custom filterchain" problem!

I don't think we need it.

What's going on here is a workaround for broken hardware, all GTA02
touchscreen have the same broken erratic behaviour.  Therefore it's fine
if mach-gta02.c is issuing a specific prescription to hide that from
userspace for all GTA02.

Today we had Marco telling us specifically that 2.6.28 touchscreen
filtering arrangements made things slow for him.  But, when we looked
closer, it seems the keyboard code itself can be broken and slow (I gave
a link to the thread on Community list) and we did not nail down that
there was any problem with our existing arrangements, he didn't reply
yet about tests with the python script so we can isolate the slowness to
the keyboard or the touchscreen filter action.  It also turned out he's
running a unique old build of stable-tracking (not recommended anyway)
with a bunch of patches ripped out.

So if I were you before embarking on a project to compose a custom
filterchain I would try to quantify what it is you think needs fixing, I
suspect we find there isn't much and what there is can be done by
tweaking parameters in mach-gta02.c.

- -Andy
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