Re: FF layer restrictions [Was: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantomdriver]

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 05:29:17 EST


Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a):
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:34, johann deneux wrote:
>> What about adding a member to ff_effect which would be the number of the motor?
>> We can't change the layout of ff_effect too much though, so we have to
>> find unused bits and put them to work.
>>
>> For instance, we could replace
>>
>> __u16 type;
>>
>> by
>>
>> __u8 motor;
>> __u8 type;
>>
>
> Splitting type field seems to be a good idea.

For me too, if 3-4 context switches for one effect are not too much in ~ kHz
freq. I'll try that.

thanks,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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