Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/97065e033ec5fd824d0133ecd0c614fe1e5c20bd Commit: 97065e033ec5fd824d0133ecd0c614fe1e5c20bd Parent: d90e6f6aad0ffdc674bc3a05c85c40dcc18e604c Author: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> AuthorDate: Sun Mar 21 22:31:26 2010 -0700 Committer: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> CommitDate: Sun Mar 21 22:38:56 2010 -0700 Input: clarify the no-finger event in multitouch protocol The current documentation does not explicitly specify how to report zero fingers, leaving a potential problem in the driver implementations and giving no parsing directive to userland. This patch defines two equally valid ways. Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> --- Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt index 8490480..eacb226 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt @@ -68,6 +68,22 @@ like: SYN_MT_REPORT SYN_REPORT +Here is the sequence after lifting one of the fingers: + + ABS_MT_POSITION_X + ABS_MT_POSITION_Y + SYN_MT_REPORT + SYN_REPORT + +And here is the sequence after lifting the remaining finger: + + SYN_MT_REPORT + SYN_REPORT + +If the driver reports one of BTN_TOUCH or ABS_PRESSURE in addition to the +ABS_MT events, the last SYN_MT_REPORT event may be omitted. Otherwise, the +last SYN_REPORT will be dropped by the input core, resulting in no +zero-finger event reaching userland. Event Semantics --------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git-commits-head" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
