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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PVFB wheel events (z-axis)



Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> All right, I think I understand now how this works.
>
> 1. X reports wheel motion as button 4 & 5.
>
> 2. VNC viewer duly transmits that into QEMU.
>
> 3. QEMU converts it to -1/+1 on z-axis (pointer_event() in vnc.c).
>
> 4. Your patch transmits that to the vkbd frontend.
>
>    Bug: struct xenkbd_position claims abs_z is absolute, which is not
>    true.

Patch appended.

>    Question: is that the protocol we want?  More below.
>
> 5. The vkbd frontend stuffs the z-axis motion into the input layer as
>    REL_WHEEL, with the sign reversed.
>
>    Bug: it ignores movement other than -1/+1.  A case can be made for
>    ignoring 0.
>
>    Bug: when it acts on z-axis movement, it ignores x/y movement /
>    position.

Fixed in changeset 439:1edfea26a2a9

> 6. X converts the wheel movement back to button 4 & 5.
[...]


diff -r 43de9d7c3c63 drivers/xen/fbfront/xenkbd.c
--- a/drivers/xen/fbfront/xenkbd.c      Tue Feb 26 17:59:18 2008 +0000
+++ b/drivers/xen/fbfront/xenkbd.c      Thu Feb 28 09:44:59 2008 +0100
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static irqreturn_t input_handler(int rq,
                case XENKBD_TYPE_MOTION:
                        if (event->motion.rel_z)
                                input_report_rel(dev, REL_WHEEL,
-                                                0 - event->motion.rel_z);
+                                                -event->motion.rel_z);
                        input_report_rel(dev, REL_X, event->motion.rel_x);
                        input_report_rel(dev, REL_Y, event->motion.rel_y);
                        break;
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ static irqreturn_t input_handler(int rq,
                                       event->key.keycode);
                        break;
                case XENKBD_TYPE_POS:
-                       if (event->pos.abs_z)
+                       if (event->pos.rel_z)
                                input_report_rel(dev, REL_WHEEL,
-                                                0 - event->pos.abs_z);
+                                                -event->pos.rel_z);
                        input_report_abs(dev, ABS_X, event->pos.abs_x);
                        input_report_abs(dev, ABS_Y, event->pos.abs_y);
                        break;
diff -r 43de9d7c3c63 include/xen/interface/io/kbdif.h
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/kbdif.h  Tue Feb 26 17:59:18 2008 +0000
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/kbdif.h  Thu Feb 28 09:44:59 2008 +0100
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct xenkbd_position
     uint8_t type;        /* XENKBD_TYPE_POS */
     int32_t abs_x;       /* absolute X position (in FB pixels) */
     int32_t abs_y;       /* absolute Y position (in FB pixels) */
-    int32_t abs_z;       /* absolute Z position (wheel) */
+    int32_t rel_z;       /* relative Z motion (wheel) */
 };
 
 #define XENKBD_IN_EVENT_SIZE 40

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