[PATCH] [Karmic] Input: synaptics - add another Portege M300 to rate blacklist

Alberto Milone alberto.milone at canonical.com
Sun Oct 18 09:34:17 UTC 2009


On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 22:06:04 Tim Gardner wrote:
> Alberto Milone wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Toshiba Portege's keyboard controller can't handle full-rate data stream
> > from the synaptics touchpad which makes it very difficult to use the
> > keyboard and the touchpad at the same time.
> >
> > A DMI workaround for this is already in the driver (see the dmi_system_id
> > toshiba_dmi_table struct) but it looks like we're missing an identifier
> > (i.e. "Portable PC") as reported in LP: #433801.
> >
> > The attached patch by Dmitry Torokhov (which is scheduled for inclusion
> > in mainline) solves the problem.
> >
> > Can you include it in Karmic, please?
> >
> > Regards,
> 
> Applied, though you'll have to write the SRU justification in the bug
> report or Stefan will be grumpy.
> 
> Dmitry - Please Cc stable at kernel.org when you submit your patch.
> 
> rtg
> 
Thanks a lot, Tim.

This means that the patch will enter Karmic after its release (as you 
mentioned an SRU rather than a FFE), right?

Regards,

-- 
Alberto Milone
Sustaining Engineer (system)
Foundations Team
Canonical OEM Services




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