Re: [PATCH] trackpoint: enable selection of press-to-select button

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 05:03:11 EST



On Thu 2009-06-25 18:10:41, Tom Weissmann wrote:
> Currently the trackpoint driver supports press-to-select but only left
> button clicks can be generated, although the trackpoint itself can
> generate 3 different button clicks when pressed: left, middle, or
> right.
>
> With this patch the trackpoint sysfs variable press-to-select can be
> set not only to 0 (off), 1 (left button), but also to 2 (middle
> button) and 3 (right button). This makes the feature more useful for
> left-handed users with no visible changes to the right-handed default
> behaviour.

Uhuh. Ugly as night. Could we instead convert press to button 4, and
let userland map it?

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