Re: [PATCH v1] Support Elan Touchscreen eKTF product.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:47:42AM +0800, Jian-Jhong Ding wrote:

quoted

Scott Liu [off-list ref] writes:

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+
+struct mt_device {
+   struct mt_slot curdata; /* placeholder of incoming data */
+   __u8 num_received;      /* how many contacts we received */
+   __u8 num_expected;      /* expected last contact index */
+   __u8 maxcontacts;
+   bool curvalid;          /* is the current contact valid? */
+   struct mt_slot *slots;
+};

With Benjamin's i2c-hid implimentation, is it possible to make
hid-multitouch not depend on USBHID and reuse it to drive this device?

We can already use hid-multitouch with hid over I2C devices (I'm
testing my i2c devices with this module).
But it's true that hid-multitouch depends on usbhid, and I the funny
think is that I was removing this dependency today.
The fact is that currently, i2c devices do not segfault with
hid-multitouch  because win8 devices do not require anymore to set
some feature at plug.

Exactly. Before looking any further - is this the same part that Tom Lin
posted a driver for earlier this summer?

I'm not Elan, and I can not be sure, but judging from the "hello
packets" and the other commands, I doubt this device is an I2C over
HID one.

Anyway, reusing hid-multitouch for this specific case seams to be a
little bit difficult. You would have first to provide a fake report
descriptor (or inject commands as if you were hid-core) and then, you
would have to reformat the incoming data into valid win7 (or 8)
packets. Judging by the functions elan_touch_parse_fid,
elan_touch_parse_wid and elants_parse_xy, the data seem to be mixed
(all the finger ids at the beginning, and not one per touch), so it is
definitively needed to recreate a valid HID packet.

So I'm not surprised with the duplicated code. However, Henrik did a
big job in kernel 3.7 to factorize mt code, and some part of the
duplication can be achieve with these functions (look at
input_mt_sync_frame and input_mt_get_slot_by_key for example).

Cheers,
Benjamin

Thanks.

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Dmitry