Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:19:04 +0100 | From | "Jiri Slaby" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantom driver |
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Cc: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
On 3/7/07, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/7/07, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): > > > Hi Jiri, > > > > Hi. > > > > > On 3/7/07, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> add sensable phantom driver > > > ... > > > > > > General question - can this driver use force-feedback mecahnisms > > > already present in kernel instead of exporting raw datastream to > > > userspace. What are shortcomings of kernels force-feedback > > > implemenattion that make it insufficient for phantom? > > > > I didn't even think about it, sorry. Does any problem with rate about 2kHz come > > on your mind before I'll try to rewrite it? > > No, not really.
Hmm, after going through input and ff layer, I figured out, that it's possible to pass only a direction to constant effect. I think, there is no possibility to pass 3D force (or vector) to the ff layer, isn't it?
thanks, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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