[PATCH] add release and repeat to addon-input

Robert Gerlach khnz at khnz.de
Thu May 17 09:14:28 PDT 2007


On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:48:35 Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 02:04 +0200, Robert Gerlach wrote:
> > with this patch, addon-input reports "ButtonReleased" and
> > "ButtonRepeat" beside "ButtonPressed".
>
> How's this useful? The only thing that uses these events is session
> stuff like g-p-m that just want to know if a button has been pressed.

I use this for my tablet pc driver, to report keys (with keycode >255 like fn) 
to a userspace daemon. Alternatively, i can put this fn-mod stuff back in the 
kernel module, but here it's not configurable to users.

Robert


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