[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-evdev 2.0.99.2

[Søren Hauberg]

2008/10/26 Simon Thum <simon.thum at gmx.de>:
> Søren Hauberg wrote:
>> 2008/10/24 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>:
>> Hmm, yeah then I don't see an alternative to double scaling. But, hey,
>> as long as it only happens on touch screens then I think it'll be
>> okay, as it doesn't happen on "ordinary" devices.
> May may want to try if you can avoid double-scaling for non-runtime
> calibrated devices.
> E.g. if calibration data from HAL/xorg.conf is OK, you can put it in the
> axis struct and only double-scale when runtime calibration data is
> different. But that's probably harder also.

I assume performance really isn't an issue here. I'd say the main
issue is keeping the code fairly clean. I imagine that the solution
you suggest will be fairly complicated, in which case I don't think it
would be worth the slight performance gain. But perhaps my priorities
aren't in place...

Søren