It is useful for userspace to know that there not dealing with a regular
mouse but rather with a pointing stick (e.g. a trackpoint) so that
userspace can e.g. automatically enable middle button scrollwheel
emulation.
It is impossible to tell the difference from the evdev info without
resorting to putting a list of device / driver names in userspace, this is
undesirable.
Add a property which allows userspace to see if a device is a pointing
stick, and set it on all the pointing stick drivers.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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