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authorBenjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>2018-10-04 15:34:30 +0300
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2018-10-04 22:06:45 +0300
commitd9ca1c990a7ffee7e68ab8d64efacd6c73103203 (patch)
treea1fb65cdaff9c3e89c80adaf9aa43c36df014ad5 /include
parent5fe2ccbef9d7aecf5c4402c753444f1a12096cfd (diff)
downloadlinux-d9ca1c990a7ffee7e68ab8d64efacd6c73103203.tar.xz
Input: reserve 2 events code because of HID
Prior to commit 190d7f02ce8e ("HID: input: do not increment usages when a duplicate is found") from the v4.18 kernel, HID used to shift the event codes if a duplicate usage was found. This ended up in a situation where a device would export a ton of ABS_MISC+n event codes, or a ton of REL_MISC+n event codes. This is now fixed, however userspace needs to detect those situation. Fortunately, ABS_MT_SLOT-1 (ABS_MISC+6) was never assigned a code, and so libinput can detect fake multitouch devices from genuine ones by checking if ABS_MT_SLOT-1 is set. Now that we have REL_WHEEL_HI_RES, libinput won't be able to differentiate true high res mice from some other device in a pre-v4.18 kernel. Set in stone that the ABS_MISC+6 and REL_MISC+1 are reserved and should not be used so userspace can properly work around those old kernels. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h19
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
index dad8d3890a3a..6d180cc60a5d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
@@ -708,7 +708,15 @@
#define REL_DIAL 0x07
#define REL_WHEEL 0x08
#define REL_MISC 0x09
-#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0a
+/*
+ * 0x0a is reserved and should not be used in input drivers.
+ * It was used by HID as REL_MISC+1 and userspace needs to detect if
+ * the next REL_* event is correct or is just REL_MISC + n.
+ * We define here REL_RESERVED so userspace can rely on it and detect
+ * the situation described above.
+ */
+#define REL_RESERVED 0x0a
+#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0b
#define REL_MAX 0x0f
#define REL_CNT (REL_MAX+1)
@@ -745,6 +753,15 @@
#define ABS_MISC 0x28
+/*
+ * 0x2e is reserved and should not be used in input drivers.
+ * It was used by HID as ABS_MISC+6 and userspace needs to detect if
+ * the next ABS_* event is correct or is just ABS_MISC + n.
+ * We define here ABS_RESERVED so userspace can rely on it and detect
+ * the situation described above.
+ */
+#define ABS_RESERVED 0x2e
+
#define ABS_MT_SLOT 0x2f /* MT slot being modified */
#define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR 0x30 /* Major axis of touching ellipse */
#define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR 0x31 /* Minor axis (omit if circular) */