[xserver PATCH 0/3] Masked valuators fixes

[Chase Douglas]

On 11/15/2010 06:45 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Can you publish the evdev patches you're using at the moment somewhere so I
> can have a look (if it isn't in one of the RFC emails already, I'm a bit
> behind).
> 
> My motivation to make the valuator API so restricted was to prevent the
> drivers from trying to be clever. They should just set the data they get,
> pass it on to the server and be done with it.

The evdev patches are in the RFC emails.

Essentially, evdev does lots of post-processing of data, such as turning
an absolute device into a relative device. This requires saving all the
values from evdev somewhere and recalling them later to do the
transformation. So either we use masked valuators to manage all the
state, or we have to duplicate masked valuators functionality in the
driver just to handle the intermediate state.

-- Chase