Re: EVIOC mechanism for MT slots

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:

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This is really problematic when launching applications that rely on
evdev to work:
you click with the mouse emulation on your icon to launch the program
(one finger), and you start using your application with one finger
only (opening of a file for instance) -> you are in an unstable case
as the app does not know the slot state until you put another finger
on the screen.

So I'm in favor of applying this patch Henrik submitted last May.

Great, so there seems to be sufficient interest to warrant revisiting
this. If you can find the patches, I will queue them in my tree. ;-)

And if Dmitry concurs, perhaps we can even aim at 2.6.38.

The reason I objected in the first place is that the patch was a "nice
to have for completeness". Now that there are actual users needing this
data I have no issues with adding ioctl to retrieve this data.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry