multi-touch-dev team mailing list archive

[Stéphane Chatty <chatty@xxxxxxx>]

Le 12 avr. 10 à 15:06, chasedouglas@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Stéphane Chatty <chatty@xxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > this may have been discussed already, but have you considered  
> > building HID
> > as a module in the kernel? This would make things easier for  
> > owners of new
> > multitouch machines: each new product needs to be referenced in  
> > hid-core.c,
> > and one needs to recompile the whole kernel if hid is not a module.
>
> Yes, we discussed this a few weeks ago and decided to modularize the
> HID module. This enabled me to build a package for the Apple Magic
> Mouse device in the multitouch PPA. This system allows us to be very
> flexible even on a released kernel, and it's rather easy for users to
> install packages from a PPA.

Cool. This means lots less Ubuntu users asking me why they must  
recompile their kernel to use their new device :-)

> If you have other devices that you want to put into a PPA we should
> coordinate. If there was a different package for different drivers
> only one could be installed at a time because they would clobber each
> other. I'd be happy to integrate drivers if that's what's needed,
> since I've already got the packaging foundation for the magicmouse
> driver.

As of today, we have:
 - hid-ntrig.c : upstream since 2.6.30, patches posted last week by  
Rafi
 - hid-stantum.c : upstream since 2.6.34-rc1
 - hid-quanta.c : upstream since 2.6.34-rc1
 - hid-mosart.c : upstream since 2.6.34-rc1
 - hid-3m-pct.c : upstream since 2.6.34-rc1, patch posted yesterday  
by myself
 - hid-egalax.c : submitted and accepted two days ago
 - hid-cando.c : still working on it

The (incomplete) list of associated computers and displays is at  
http://lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/multitouch-devices.html. I  
think Andy has taken the first five of the list already (probably not  
including the patch for 3M).

St.