Re: [PATCH 9/9 v2] Input: synaptics - process finger (<=5) transitions

From: Chase Douglas
Date: Tue Jul 26 2011 - 19:17:46 EST


On 07/22/2011 09:11 PM, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Chase Douglas
> <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/20/2011 06:39 AM, djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Synaptics image sensor touchpads track up to 5 fingers, but only report 2.
>>> They use a special "TYPE=2" (AGM-CONTACT) packet type that reports
>>> the number of tracked fingers and which finger is reported in the SGM
>>> and AGM packets.
>>>
>>> With this new packet type, it is possible to tell userspace when 4 or 5
>>> fingers are touching.
>>
>> Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see where the QUADTAP and QUINTAP values
>> are set in the events. I see where the bits are set during
>> initialization, but not during use.
>
> It's subtle.
> The firmware actually report 4/5 in the AGM-CONTACT packet, which the
> agm packet parser sets directly in mt_state->count.
> This is then reported to userspace when synaptics_report_mt() calls
> input_mt_report_finger_count(dev, mt_state->count), which now supports
> QUINTTAP (see patch #8).

Ahh, thanks! Conditional upon getting the previous patches merged in
some fashion:

Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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