Re: elantech touchpad driver miss-recognising logitech mice

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 18:24:24 EST


On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:23:03 +0100
Arjan Opmeer <arjan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:08:21PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >
> > Failing that I did build a modified patch (below) based on that from the
> > thread plus the suggested improvements. This has been tested by people
> > with the Logitech mice successfully, and also by people with elantech
> > touchpads who report no regressions.
>
> Good! This means the suggested fix is working :)
>
> However, my original proposal:
>
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/595/
>
> also removed printing the version query result in elantech_init() to keep
> the amount of log messages the same.
>
> > If there is no later patches then perhaps you could test this one, and
> > then I can push it upstream.
>
> Dmitry suggested moving the Elantech detection down in psmouse_extensions()
> in psmouse-base.c to make the mouse detection less chatty:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/20/55
>
> However, Alexander pointed out he did not move it far enough down:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/22/18
>
> It should have been moved all the way down below the call to
> im_explorer_detect() for him to not see the extra Elantech detection noise.
>
> Now, it is Dmitry's call again to determine whether he really wants to move
> the call to elantech_detect() that far down or can live with the extra log
> messages... :)
>

blah. Please propose a final patch for me to stash away, lest the
issue get forgotten about.

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