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@@ -65,6 +65,20 @@ the full state of each initiated contact has to reside in the receiving
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end. Upon receiving an MT event, one simply updates the appropriate
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attribute of the current slot.
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+Some devices identify and/or track more contacts than they can report to the
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+driver. A driver for such a device should associate one type B slot with each
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+contact that is reported by the hardware. Whenever the identity of the
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+contact associated with a slot changes, the driver should invalidate that
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+slot by changing its ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID. If the hardware signals that it is
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+tracking more contacts than it is currently reporting, the driver should use
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+a BTN_TOOL_*TAP event to inform userspace of the total number of contacts
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+being tracked by the hardware at that moment. The driver should do this by
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+explicitly sending the corresponding BTN_TOOL_*TAP event and setting
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+use_count to false when calling input_mt_report_pointer_emulation().
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+The driver should only advertise as many slots as the hardware can report.
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+Userspace can detect that a driver can report more total contacts than slots
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+by noting that the largest supported BTN_TOOL_*TAP event is larger than the
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+total number of type B slots reported in the absinfo for the ABS_MT_SLOT axis.
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Protocol Example A
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