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Input: add short note about ABS_MISC+<n> axes

Message ID 1387207386-4601-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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David Herrmann Dec. 16, 2013, 3:23 p.m. UTC
We must not reassign those axes or we will break backwards-compat. Add a
small note for that so we don't accidentally some day reuse these.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/input.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

David Herrmann Jan. 23, 2014, 2:39 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Dmitry

ping?

David

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> We must not reassign those axes or we will break backwards-compat. Add a
> small note for that so we don't accidentally some day reuse these.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/input.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input.h b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> index a372627..da1125e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> @@ -816,6 +816,10 @@ struct input_keymap_entry {
>
>  #define ABS_MISC               0x28
>
> +/* ABS_MISC+x is used by HID to assign to unknown axes. Note that they used to
> + * flow over into the MT definitions. For backwards-compatibility, we must
> + * not reassign [0x29-0x2e] */
> +
>  #define ABS_MT_SLOT            0x2f    /* MT slot being modified */
>  #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR     0x30    /* Major axis of touching ellipse */
>  #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR     0x31    /* Minor axis (omit if circular) */
> --
> 1.8.5.1
>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input.h b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
index a372627..da1125e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/input.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
@@ -816,6 +816,10 @@  struct input_keymap_entry {
 
 #define ABS_MISC		0x28
 
+/* ABS_MISC+x is used by HID to assign to unknown axes. Note that they used to
+ * flow over into the MT definitions. For backwards-compatibility, we must
+ * not reassign [0x29-0x2e] */
+
 #define ABS_MT_SLOT		0x2f	/* MT slot being modified */
 #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR	0x30	/* Major axis of touching ellipse */
 #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR	0x31	/* Minor axis (omit if circular) */