Using smooth scrolling over uinput

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:24:36AM +0200, Raphael Isemann wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> i use uinput for sending mouse-input from userland to emulate a mouse. Now
> i want that the REL_WHEEL input is interpreted not as button-presses but
> rather as a smooth/pixelperfect input.
> 
> According to that:
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/gTLYUgTyEWhFANwI8KGH this is
> supported in evdev since a while and i only need to mark the axis as
> scrolling axis ("""Instead, let the
> driver mark axes as scrolling axes as required.""").
> But how can i mark the axes? Any hints on useful documentation on that
> topic or other functions that allow to sent signals that are interpreted as
> smooth scrolling are welcome.

if you have REL_WHEEL on a device, the evdev driver will mark that as a
scrolling axis automatically. you don't have to do anything there.

Cheers,
   Peter