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HID: multitouch: report MT_TOOL_PALM for non-confident touches
authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:13:52 +0000 (16:13 +0200)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:33:47 +0000 (15:33 +0200)
commit6f6ffa037a92ec7a186185293c404abbfc72c8fb
treee0a8982cdfac38df1fc87796179e37278766de8b
parent7d65c644f4eca92aa57717f0382817db102e1770
HID: multitouch: report MT_TOOL_PALM for non-confident touches

According to Microsoft specification [1] for Precision Touchpads (and
Touchscreens) the devices use "confidence" reports to signal accidental
touches, or contacts that are "too large to be a finger". Instead of
simply marking contact inactive in this case (which causes issues if
contact was originally proper and we lost confidence in it later, as
this results in accidental clicks, drags, etc), let's report such
contacts as MT_TOOL_PALM and let userspace decide what to do.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/touchpad-windows-precision-touchpad-collection

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
[splitted and rebased]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c