[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "Input: elantech - fix detection of touchpads where the revision matches a known rate" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 7 00:11:10 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Input: elantech - fix detection of touchpads where the revision matches a known rate

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:40:50 -0700
Subject: Input: elantech - fix detection of touchpads where the revision
 matches a known rate
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commit 5f0ee9d17aae628b22be86966471db65be21f262 upstream.

Make the check to skip the rate check more lax, so that it applies
to all hw_version 4 models.

This fixes the touchpad not being detected properly on Asus PU551LA
laptops.

Reported-and-tested-by: David Zafra Gómez <dezeta at klo.es>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c b/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c
index 79363b6..f181d73 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c
@@ -1376,10 +1376,11 @@ static bool elantech_is_signature_valid(const unsigned char *param)
 		return true;

 	/*
-	 * Some models have a revision higher then 20. Meaning param[2] may
-	 * be 10 or 20, skip the rates check for these.
+	 * Some hw_version >= 4 models have a revision higher then 20. Meaning
+	 * that param[2] may be 10 or 20, skip the rates check for these.
 	 */
-	if (param[0] == 0x46 && (param[1] & 0xef) == 0x0f && param[2] < 40)
+	if ((param[0] & 0x0f) >= 0x06 && (param[1] & 0xaf) == 0x0f &&
+	    param[2] < 40)
 		return true;

 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rates); i++)
--
1.9.1





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