Re: odevice_ipaq, machine IDs and button init

I'd like to help with h5550 as much as I can.
Regards,

Dmitriy



Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:04:12AM +1300, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have found out why I am seeing so many extra buttons in the Button settings 
>> application on my iPAQs (h3850 & h3970). If you take a look in 
>> odevice_ipaq.cpp you can see in init() it checks to see if the button model 
>> ANDed with the device model = the device model, which would be just fine if 
>> the none of the device models were binary subsets of eachother - except they 
>> are. When tested in this way, a button defined as being for eg. 
>> Model_iPAQ_H22xx (0x10007) will be active on Model_iPAQ_H31xx (0x10001), 
>> Model_iPAQ_H36xx (0x10002), and Model_iPAQ_H38xx (0x10004). This has probably 
>> been happening for a while but it has started to become more of a problem as 
>> support for new iPAQs has been added recently.
>>
>> It seems to me we either need to renumber all of the devices so that only one 
>> bit in the model mask is set (0x10001, 0x10002, 0x10004, 0x10008...), or we 
>> come up with another way of associating buttons with multiple models.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>     
>
> This close to a next release I like the bit field idea fine.
>
> The work that Paul proposes is quite invasive and involves the help of
> port people. Since Paul has largely been driving the port folk over at
> kernel-discuss, I think we can consider him the point person on further
> work.
>
> I would prefer to have toolkit support for hardware detection, which
> means it would be a great idea to incorporate this with Qt4. But that is
> largely pie-in-the-sky thinking. Lorn is welcome to prove me wrong.
>
> E
>
>   
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