Re: FF layer restrictions [Was: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantomdriver]

[Jiri Slaby]

Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a):
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:34, johann deneux wrote:
>> What about adding a member to ff_effect which would be the number of the motor?
>> We can't change the layout of ff_effect too much though, so we have to
>> find unused bits and put them to work.
>>
>> For instance, we could replace
>>
>> __u16 type;
>>
>> by
>>
>> __u8 motor;
>> __u8 type;
>>
> 
> Splitting type field seems to be a good idea.

Maybe stupid question, but what about endianness + backward compatibility?
If we split it into motor,type sequence, it would break LE (untouched BE),
if we do type,motor, it is OK for LE (broken BE).

regards,
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faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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