Hi,

* Carl Philipp Klemm [off-list ref] [201030 09:06]:

Adds a driver for supporting permanet, physically labeled, buttons on
touchscreen surfaces. As are common on android phones designed with android 1.0
to 2.3 in mind. The driver works by attaching to another input device and
creating key events on its device when a press is registerd on a button.
It also provides a mirrored touchscreen device with the same events as the
attached device, but with the touchches that land on buttons filterd away
Buttons are arbitrary rectangles configurable via dts.

Nice to have a generic way for the touchscreen buttons :)

Care to summarize here too what's currently blocking touchscreen buttons
driver only providing the keyboard events as a separate inputdevice
without having to mirror all the touchscreen events?

Regards,

Tony