[PATCH] mi: ensure chained button mappings from SD -> MD (#19282)

Thomas Jaeger thjaeger at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 07:58:05 PST 2009


Alexia Death wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Thomas Jaeger <thjaeger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Alexia: What is the point of remapping buttons willy-nilly before
>> posting an event anyway?  The comment suggests it just servers as a
>> reminder of how remapping works.  It's problematic in that proper
>> DeviceMappingNotify events aren't send and I don't want to think about
>> what could potentially happen if some client calls XTestFakeButtonEvent
>> (let alone XTestFakeDeviceButtonEvent) at the right moment.  The problem
>> in bug #19282 was fixed in ubuntu by simply skipping the remapping step,
>> and I'm not aware of any issues that this may have caused.
>>
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand question... I don't have that good of a picture
> about the larger picture. For me the problem is that wacom tablet events do
> not work right... And that's where I traced it.

Sorry, I thought you were a linuxwacom developer.  CC'ing Ping on
further conversation.




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