From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753686AbYIXMsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:48:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751602AbYIXMsm (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:48:42 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]:53436 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbYIXMsl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:48:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=P8fZGDOn7n+T3ua7Th1huDSQrOkbhGoddh0SS5ykS+gcv+tD5O/XiW2ux0rrWMdxWX RoyN69VuKScqW3cwrXZxhSVpn0LqG6+bakvQ9/7Sxsa0D4O73vEJWkdK0umW5R7CLbmX wGkT13sUubmSCyn7BRp5uSscmhhCq2Z1ttiok= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:48:39 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?=" To: "Matthew Garrett" Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbtouchscreen, 2.6.25 Cc: "Oliver Neukum" , "Ondrej Zary" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080924103040.GA13392@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200809231051.14016.linux@rainbow-software.org> <200809231613.41905.oliver@neukum.org> <20080924103040.GA13392@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2008/9/24 Matthew Garrett : > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:04:55AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: >> Obviously that depends on how you define "better" :-) The problem I'm >> facing is that with the X driver there is no way to change calibration >> without restarting X several times, which isn't acceptable for the >> application we're developing. Sure, I could fix the X driver to allow >> run-time changes to the calibration parameters, but that's a very >> large task. > > This is the sort of thing that input device properties were added for. > If you're able to use 1.5 of the X server, it's not a huge body of work > to add this functionality. Well, 1.5 isn't an option for me. But this does remove the main problem with handling calibration in X. So, I guess that means my patch shouldn't be applied. I'll continue to use it in-house for a while, but it won't be a long term solution. Thanks, Søren