This event code represents scroll reports from high-resolution wheels,
and will be used by future patches in this series. See the linux-input
"Reporting high-resolution scroll events" thread [0] for more details.
[0]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg57380.html
Signed-off-by: Harry Cutts <hcutts@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* REL_WHEEL, REL_HWHEEL:
- These codes are used for vertical and horizontal scroll wheels,
- respectively.
+ respectively. The value is the number of "notches" moved on the wheel, the
+ physical size of which varies by device. For high-resolution wheels (which
+ report multiple events for each notch of movement, or do not have notches)
+ this may be an approximation based on the high-resolution scroll events.
+
+* REL_WHEEL_HI_RES:
+
+ - If a vertical scroll wheel supports high-resolution scrolling, this code
+ will be emitted in addition to REL_WHEEL. The value is the (approximate)
+ distance travelled by the user's finger, in microns.
EV_ABS
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#define REL_DIAL 0x07
#define REL_WHEEL 0x08
#define REL_MISC 0x09
+#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES 0x0a
#define REL_MAX 0x0f
#define REL_CNT (REL_MAX+1)