[Precise PATCH 0/6] Support for new Sentelic touchpad (LP #969334)

[Tim Gardner]

On 04/12/2012 07:58 AM, Eric Miao wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969334
> 
> These patches have actually been upstreamed and landed in v3.4-rc1:
> 
>   Sentelic's originally posted patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/23/1
> 
>   Merged into Linus tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=2f7fa1be66dce77608330c5eb918d6360b5525f2
> 
> The 6 patches below are applicable to the current precise kernel, and
> have been verified to work by at least Ike and the bug reporter.
> 
> I know this is really late in the dev phase, but this is a hwcert block
> issue, and I'm posting here in the hope that we can find some solution
> out.  There are several options from my understanding:
> 
>   1) get the patches to be accepted by -stable
> 
>   2) a dkms package
> 
>   3) get a minimal patch to enable this so to reduce the possibility
>      of regression to minimal
> 
>   4) merge this series as is
> 
> While 1) is not likely, and 2) is definitely what we want. Are there
> any other options?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Andres Salomon (1):
>   Input: psmouse - allow drivers to use psmouse_{de,}activate
> 
> Oskari Saarenmaa (1):
>   Input: sentelic - improve packet debugging information
> 
> Paul Fox (1):
>   Input: psmouse - use psmouse_[de]activate() from sentelic and hgpk
>     drivers
> 
> Tai-hwa Liang (3):
>   Input: sentelic - refactor code for upcoming new hardware support
>   Input: sentelic - enabling absolute coordinates output for newer
>     hardware
>   Input: sentelic - minor code cleanup
> 
>  drivers/input/mouse/hgpk.c         |    9 +-
>  drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c |   15 ++-
>  drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h      |    2 +
>  drivers/input/mouse/sentelic.c     |  306 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/input/mouse/sentelic.h     |   35 ++++-
>  5 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
> 

Eric - these don't look too bad. How about a pull request with these
patches cherry-picked from mainline using 'git cherry-pick -x' ?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com