Re: [PATCH] Input: i8042 - add quirk for Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 14:29:10 EST


Hi Jonathan,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:38:57AM -0600, Jonathan Denose wrote:
> Hi Dmitry
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:45 PM Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 04:33:20PM -0500, Jonathan Denose wrote:
> > > The ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 touchpad works fine except that clicking
> > > and dragging by tapping the touchpad or depressing the touchpad
> > > do not work. Disabling PNP for controller setting discovery enables
> > > click and drag without negatively impacting other touchpad features.
> >
> > I would like to understand more on how enabling PnP discovery for i8042
> > affects the touchpad. Do you see it using different interrupt or IO
> > ports? What protocol does the touchpad use with/without PnP? If the
> > protocol is the same, do you see difference in the ranges (pressure,
> > etc) reported by the device?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Dmitry
>
> Without PnP discovery the touchpad is using the SynPS/2 protocol, with
> PnP discovery, the touchpad is using the rmi4 protocol. Since the
> protocols are different, so are the ranges but let me know if you
> still want to see them.

Thank you for this information. So it is not PnP discovery that appears
harmful in your case, but rather that legacy PS/2 mode appears to be
working better than RMI4 for the device in question.

I will note that the original enablement of RMI4 for T14 was done by
Hans in [1]. Later T14 with AMD were added to the list of devices that
should use RMI4 [2], however this was reverted in [3].

Could you please tell me what exact device you are dealing with? What's
it ACPI ID?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201005114919.371592-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220318113949.32722-1-snafu109@xxxxxxxxx
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220920193936.8709-1-markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks.

--
Dmitry