linux-kernel - Re: [Letux-kernel] [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers:input:tsc2007: add new common binding names, pre-calibration, flipping and rotation

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Message-ID: <20170218084533.27ad3e3b@aktux>
Date:   Sat, 18 Feb 2017 08:45:33 +0100
From:   Andreas Kemnade <andreas@...nade.info>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [Letux-kernel] [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers:input:tsc2007: add new
 common binding names, pre-calibration, flipping and rotation

Hi Dmitry,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:40:41 -0800
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:

[...] 
> > Let me cite myself:
> > 
> > >> This makes it possible to pre-calibrate the touch so that is
> > >> (almost)
> 
> Yes, it allows you to pre-calibrate, I get it. But you still do
> properly calibrate later, right? So you are doing double work here,
> once in kernel, and second time in userspace.
> 
I as a daily user of that tsc2007 patch series say that I had never the
wish to calibrate it later in a better way. I am doing console work
with a virtual keyboard on it. So it is rarely double work here.

Regards,
Andreas

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