Re: [PATCH 2/7] HID: N-trig MTM Driver fix and cleanup patch 2

From: Rafi Rubin
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 20:07:32 EST


- case HID_DG_CONTACTID: /* Not trustworthy, squelch for now */

I squelched contact id because they don't actually track fingers, rather contacts are reported spatially (seems to be from the bottom to top) making this value useless for tracking (after all the user space tools can count contacts since the start of the group).

See the "Finger Tracking" section in
Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
When tracking id is incorrect its better to just leave it out.

+ case HID_DG_INVERT: /* value is always 0 */
+ case HID_DG_ERASER: /* value is always 0 */
+ case HID_DG_CONTACTID: /* value is useless */
+ case HID_DG_BARRELSWITCH: /* doubtful */

Stephane put these here erroneously. He was working with a firmware that didn't support the stylus at all when he made those observations. These events are useful and should not be squelched.

+ case HID_DG_CONTACTCOUNT:

See the rdesc for the device.
"Digitizers.ContactCount ---> Sync.Report"

As the last event sent by a mt group, that is already mapped to input_sync(). If you don't squelch it, you don't need to implicitly add the sync.

case HID_DG_HEIGHT:
hid_map_usage(hi, usage, bit, max,
EV_ABS, ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR);
- input_set_abs_params(hi->input, ABS_MT_ORIENTATION,
- 0, 1, 0, 0);

Stephane added the orientation to height, I can't comment about the wisdom of pulling it.

Rafi
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