[SRU][B/C/D/OEM-OSP1-B/E][PATCH 1/1] Input: alps - don't handle ALPS cs19 trackpoint-only device

Hui Wang hui.wang at canonical.com
Tue Jul 16 14:12:57 UTC 2019


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836752

On a latest Lenovo laptop, the trackpoint and 3 buttons below it
don't work at all, when we move the trackpoint or press those 3
buttons, the kernel will print out:
"Rejected trackstick packet from non DualPoint device"

This device is identified as an alps touchpad but the packet has
trackpoint format, so the alps.c drops the packet and prints out
the message above.

According to XiaoXiao's explanation, this device is named cs19 and
is trackpoint-only device, its firmware is only for trackpoint, it
is independent of touchpad and is a device completely different from
DualPoint ones.

To drive this device with mininal changes to the existing driver, we
just let the alps driver not handle this device, then the trackpoint.c
will be the driver of this device if the trackpoint driver is enabled.
(if not, this device will fallback to a bare PS/2 device)

With the trackpoint.c, this trackpoint and 3 buttons all work well,
they have all features that the trackpoint should have, like
scrolling-screen, drag-and-drop and frame-selection.

Signed-off-by: XiaoXiao Liu <sliuuxiaonxiao at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang at canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7e4935ccc3236751e5fe4bd6846f86e46bb2e427
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git)
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c b/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
index 0a6f7ca883e7..11a4363c3b60 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 #include "psmouse.h"
 #include "alps.h"
+#include "trackpoint.h"
 
 /*
  * Definitions for ALPS version 3 and 4 command mode protocol
@@ -2864,6 +2865,23 @@ static const struct alps_protocol_info *alps_match_table(unsigned char *e7,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static bool alps_is_cs19_trackpoint(struct psmouse *psmouse)
+{
+	u8 param[2] = { 0 };
+
+	if (ps2_command(&psmouse->ps2dev,
+			param, MAKE_PS2_CMD(0, 2, TP_READ_ID)))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * param[0] contains the trackpoint device variant_id while
+	 * param[1] contains the firmware_id. So far all alps
+	 * trackpoint-only devices have their variant_ids equal
+	 * TP_VARIANT_ALPS and their firmware_ids are in 0x20~0x2f range.
+	 */
+	return param[0] == TP_VARIANT_ALPS && (param[1] & 0x20);
+}
+
 static int alps_identify(struct psmouse *psmouse, struct alps_data *priv)
 {
 	const struct alps_protocol_info *protocol;
@@ -3164,6 +3182,20 @@ int alps_detect(struct psmouse *psmouse, bool set_properties)
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
+	/*
+	 * ALPS cs19 is a trackpoint-only device, and uses different
+	 * protocol than DualPoint ones, so we return -EINVAL here and let
+	 * trackpoint.c drive this device. If the trackpoint driver is not
+	 * enabled, the device will fall back to a bare PS/2 mouse.
+	 * If ps2_command() fails here, we depend on the immediately
+	 * followed psmouse_reset() to reset the device to normal state.
+	 */
+	if (alps_is_cs19_trackpoint(psmouse)) {
+		psmouse_dbg(psmouse,
+			    "ALPS CS19 trackpoint-only device detected, ignoring\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Reset the device to make sure it is fully operational:
 	 * on some laptops, like certain Dell Latitudes, we may
-- 
2.17.1




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