Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-multitouch: forward MSC_TIMESTAMP

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Oct 02 2017 - 08:34:42 EST


On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Nicolas Boichat wrote:

> Computes and forwards the device timestamp according to the
> specification.
>
> Many devices use a 16-bit timestamp field, with a resolution
> of 100us, therefore rolling around very frequently (every
> 6.5 seconds). To make sure there is no ambiguity, the
> timestamp reported to the input stack reset to 0 whenever
> the time between 2 received events is greater than
> MAX_TIMESTAMP_INTERVAL (1 second).
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> Inspired from Benjamin Tissoires's patch here:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1742181/, and changing the
> logic to resynchronize the timestamps to use received time
> instead of a potentially more fragile difference between
> the 2 deltas.

Benjamin, any objections on merging this one for 4.15? I like it.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs