Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] Add the `REL_WHEEL_HI_RES` event code

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 20:25:16 EST


On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 03:43:13PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Harry Cutts wrote:
>
> > This event code represents scroll reports from high-resolution wheels,
> > and will be used by future patches in this series. See the linux-input
> > "Reporting high-resolution scroll events" thread [0] for more details.
> >
> > [0]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg57380.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harry Cutts <hcutts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2: None
> >
> > Documentation/input/event-codes.rst | 11 ++++++++++-
> > include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst b/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> > index a8c0873beb95..cef220c176a4 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.rst
> > @@ -190,7 +190,16 @@ A few EV_REL codes have special meanings:
> > * REL_WHEEL, REL_HWHEEL:
> >
> > - These codes are used for vertical and horizontal scroll wheels,
> > - respectively.
> > + respectively. The value is the number of "notches" moved on the wheel, the
> > + physical size of which varies by device. For high-resolution wheels (which
> > + report multiple events for each notch of movement, or do not have notches)
> > + this may be an approximation based on the high-resolution scroll events.
> > +
> > +* REL_WHEEL_HI_RES:
> > +
> > + - If a vertical scroll wheel supports high-resolution scrolling, this code
> > + will be emitted in addition to REL_WHEEL. The value is the (approximate)
> > + distance travelled by the user's finger, in microns.
> >
> > EV_ABS
> > ------
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > index 53fbae27b280..dad8d3890a3a 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > @@ -708,6 +708,7 @@
> > #define REL_DIAL 0x07
> > #define REL_WHEEL 0x08
> > #define REL_MISC 0x09
> > +#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0a
> > #define REL_MAX 0x0f
> > #define REL_CNT (REL_MAX+1)
>
> Dmitry, is this OK with you?

Yep, please feel free to merge through your tree.

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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Dmitry