Hi Dmitry,

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text
> Another question is why do you want to poll the same device at
> different intervals? The processor is already woken up so it makes sense
> to do as much as possible instead of going to sleep. In your case
> 200/700 for every 1400ms interval you wake an extra time to poll
> switches so unless polling switches takes very long time it is better to
> combine them together (and into one input device, probably).

I see. That is a good question :)

I didn't realize that splitting into two separate input devices with
different polling intervals would have the opposite effect than what I
intended. Thank you for pointing this out. I will definitely integrate
them into one input device polled at 200ms.

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

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