On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:45:27PM -0700, Ping Cheng wrote: > > the fujitsu ones still provide some ID of the device, don't they? > > looking at the wacom code, it only does the device name check, hence a > > device WACf09 is id 0x09. the same goes for fujitsu devices, we could > > extract the device ID from there and do the same key assignment as for > > wacoms. All that should be needed there is another sscanf and an extension > > of the ID table (or some way to assign wacom ids to the fujitsu devices). > > This is the first issue. > > I will make another patch to cover this issue (I've already had one > for linuxwacom when I supported the Fujitsu cases). >
thank you. > > What benefit do we have to let a user specify the type "stylus" if the > > device doesn't have the required bits set? > > No benefit if the device doesn't support the type. But not much harm > either since the driver would still work. However, if we don't support > an valid type, users would be confused. It hurts even if they don't > complain. Plus, if we take backward compatibility into the discussion, > covering xorg.conf as much as we can is a way to make our "loyal" > users happy. > > > Shouldn't we work on having the device have the bits available as required? > > In theory, yes we should. In reality, it would be hard. We are > talking about OEM support here. There are decisions that the OEM > vendor can not make for its users. > > So, I'd choose the cheap and effective solution: let all xorg.conf > defined types pass. Why cannot we trust our smart users one more time, > especially they are Linux users :)? right, let's do it. Can you send me an updated patch please? Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
