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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux


As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel.

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel. Develop a standard protocol to allow userspace applications to communicate with haptic touchpads, and minimize duplicated code and effort. If this interests you, their technical design document and HID subsystem patch proposals can be found via this Linux kernel mailing list thread.

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