From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759401AbZAGPFa (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:05:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754836AbZAGPFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:05:19 -0500 Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.64]:57988 "EHLO QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753065AbZAGPFR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:05:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: Add a detailed multi-touch finger data report protocol (rev2) From: Jim Gettys Reply-To: jg@laptop.org To: Greg KH Cc: Henrik Rydberg , jkosina@suse.cz, Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Peter Hutterer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090106222141.GA685@kroah.com> References: <495804B1.10300@euromail.se> <1231266769.8379.79.camel@jg-vaio> <20090106222141.GA685@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: One Laptop Per Child Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:05:14 -0500 Message-Id: <1231340714.8379.141.camel@jg-vaio> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 14:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > 2) do you want generic USB HID patches or do you want to, for now, > > confine these to USB device specific drivers as much as possible? > > As more devices should be showing up with this kind of support, it would > seem to make sense to add it to the HID core, right? > Yes, the HID core makes sense to me if we had more than one (partially) implemented example in captivity and/or more than the unconfirmed pious claims of one Microsoft document. Right now, it is less than clear to me which way to jump. I'll try to see what may be involved.... - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child