How do I make Xglamo read directly from the touchscreen?

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Mon Dec 29 13:39:32 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

| Maybe later, if that's done, people will start to wonder why tslib is
| still necessary when we have a clean input device, but it's not today's
| problem directly for us.
|
|> the problem is - a newer device or some other device not made by om
then may
|> or may not use tslib and thus now configuration etc. etc. all works
|> differently. it makes life harder to maintain a consistent
distribution across
|> multiple devices. maintaining consistency is GOOD. :) move as much as
possible
|> to config. :)

Somehow the story that providing clean data to input event device is
wrong thing to do is failing to make sense to me :-)

I also imagine that I was telling people to add a new userspace library
to everything because I had dirty data coming out of the kernel, and the
new and exotic flames that would generate.  Right-click emulation being
done there instead of a generic in-kernel filter doesn't sounds like a
reason that could be leveraged into that infrastructure being created if
it didn't already exist.

The two things about

~ - cleaning up the touchscreen data in kernel, and

~ - whether to maintain tslib linkage in userspace for basically API
compatability reasons

are separate issues... the first is the right thing to do IMO and the
second is a useful option we're looking at because we think it might
help get the kernel filter stuff upstream, but not proposing to get
changed in OM userspace.

- -Andy
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