From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@nokia.com>,
Benjamin Tissoires <tissoire@cena.fr>,
Stephane Chatty <chatty@enac.fr>,
Rafi Rubin <rafi@seas.upenn.edu>,
Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev2)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFA4F08.5010700@euromail.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimTChXjbDL0NAxoNu-Ld7AGDezfsvIHwjKuKt1A@mail.gmail.com>
Ping Cheng wrote:
[...]
> This topic is outside of the _MT_ protocol discussion.
>
> However, it is indeed an issue with all filtered input events, both
> for MT and regular ones.
>
> I think we need to add an ioctl to enable user land driver/client to
> signal the kernel driver to send all events without filtering, just
> once. Hot-plugged devices and X driver starts after user has contacted
> with the device are two examples that the client would miss filtered
> events.
>
> Dmitry, do you think it is a valid suggestion?
>
> I've had this issue for ages (but never had time to work on it :(.
It would be easy to initialize a catch-up when opening the device for a new
client (evdev_open()).
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-18 20:10 [PATCH] input: mt: Introduce MT event slots (rev 3) Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-18 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev2) Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-19 2:37 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-19 12:12 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-20 0:13 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-20 7:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-20 10:46 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-20 10:40 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-24 4:58 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-24 6:07 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-24 10:03 ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2010-05-24 15:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-24 17:06 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-24 17:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-24 17:33 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-24 17:48 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-24 18:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-24 19:19 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-19 22:43 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-19 23:34 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-20 0:13 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-20 0:26 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-20 0:51 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-20 1:03 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-20 4:18 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-20 0:21 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-20 0:34 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-20 7:08 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-20 22:19 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-20 22:48 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-21 3:35 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-21 15:19 ` Rafi Rubin
2010-05-21 15:40 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-21 21:25 ` Henrik Rydberg
2010-05-22 3:10 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-24 5:25 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-24 5:48 ` Ping Cheng
2010-05-24 6:15 ` Peter Hutterer
2010-05-24 9:49 ` Henrik Rydberg
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