[PATCH 0/2] evdev: Support EmulateWheelTimeout

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 14:37:27 PDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:16:39PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> These patches add support for a timeout in the wheel emulation code in
>> the evdev driver. This allows a device to emit the original button
>> events if the emulating button is released before the specified timeout.
>> The code has been basically ported from the mouse driver. With this
>> functionality, I can use the Trackpoint on my Thinkpad exactly as I was
>> with the mouse driver.
>
>
> Thanks! Both patches have been pushed.
>
> Three minor corrections: one indentation, the property format should be 16 on
> both XIChangeDeviceProperty calls, and a compile-time fix (stray }).
> Tested, works nicely, thanks.

Thanks for testing, Peter. The XI property stuff wasn't even
compile-tested since I was on an older server, so I'm not surprised
there were issues there.

--
Dan



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