linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev3)

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Message-ID: <20100521172222.GB26439@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 May 2010 10:22:22 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Ping Cheng <pinglinux@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@...ia.com>,
	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...-t.net>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <tissoire@...a.fr>,
	Stephane Chatty <chatty@...c.fr>,
	Rafi Rubin <rafi@...s.upenn.edu>,
	Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev3)

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:56:35PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Friday 21 May 2010 09:36:03 am Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> >> Ping Cheng wrote:
> >>> Hi Henrik,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for your quick turnaround. Two minor comments in line.
> >>>
> >>> Ping
> >> Thanks for those, yes, both mistakes. Dmitry, in case you find these last
> >> versions acceptable, perhaps one could change them manually:
> >>
> >> 1. Patch description: s/SYN_MT_SLOT/ABS_SLOT/
> > 
> > Not ABS_MT_SLOT?
> 
> I wrote an argument for ABS_SLOT in the first patch, in short there is a
> namespace clash I would like to avoid.
> 

Hm, I am not sure I follow that argument. While you are saying that slot
is not an MT event it is certainly not an ST event either. I would even
say that slot _is_ an MT event since it signals current "slot" or group
of MT data to userspace. Am I missing something?

-- 
Dmitry
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