From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Add sysfs interface for touchpad state Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:21:35 +0530 Message-ID: <1487411495.13283.3.camel@debian.org> References: <20170214141612.16913-1-rrs@debian.org> <20170217033301.GI6814@wisp> <20170217084806.GA4397@dtor-ws> <1487323140.6980.20.camel@debian.org> <20170217195237.GD13050@dtor-ws> Reply-To: rrs@debian.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f65.google.com ([74.125.83.65]:34060 "EHLO mail-pg0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbdBRJvl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2017 04:51:41 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-f65.google.com with SMTP id v184so7052350pgv.1 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 01:51:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170217195237.GD13050@dtor-ws> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Darren Hart , Rafael Wysocki , Platform Driver , Ike Panhc , Andy Shevchenko , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello Dmitry, On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 11:52 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > OK, if firmware disables the touchpad automatically, then it is fine. > > I am wondering about the utility of the new interface though. Are there > already major users of it? Not yet. I proposed this interface because we want something like this for Onboard. For detailed discussion, please see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1366421/comments/43 hp-wmi and thinkpad-acpi do provide a similar interface, but for tablet. > If there are no users, then there is no point > in adding it, it will stay there unused and forgotten by anyone. > Teaching ideapad to emit SW_TABLET_MODE is more useful IMO. If accepted, Onboard will be a consumer. Yes. SW_TABLET_MODE would be ideal. But looking at the drive's code, I don't know if it has an EC command for it. - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEQCVDstmIVAB/Yn02pjpYo/LhdWkFAlioGScACgkQpjpYo/Lh dWnEvA/5AfQQYaBiOsunZuR6OcM1BrFy1vpSGAToRNdWkaV18p7IfZGSkDUbZ3U+ rLdL5URnD5/CsHhcOPpUp4IhM4wdce+Rxc4T4LdEyjqZ29IlGrA7k21i2fJXfEws 5Mjd+pN01PitXGGBjc/BcX0ol37pcXyLfMpl3UKvE44LU2CwU5sahnSDyHgM+G77 Gnoy5Po0eLAQoOPAJIsLwSaxJlzoZAknZWuAwqQfNXxXdxVFfTr5OmV9pcTx2vgw cPdg+8lrU8M7w2SNrK91AvccnXLV5T/rNOolk3VHoH/AQJdgxbiZKdkv0jyg/WKp TyGIkgwNSFjYeph/JZ/IqXkOnkuB/TcKQq7uVKN5b71U2VouV6gEe/2RcOQ+lSYg au3NX4Wq6Ot9MSMfqwIZ0+TgazGGjbUlFLhf1TFRZ9o8ERsZrtaXsC5c1U3egAS/ XZWuiI0CI5c3k1WTxWpy76pX963gh+3d9kejanWug2LIriIALmD5/ryN56Jml41S 3I3JnnuiLuwnZ/t/ehA3c9JVhsbTJg4dBbZE9tKgnAjIV/MmmbE9kCtnCRcBuFUa W2vViMxv2eVBfiHP3Z8TC7E0UUqe69htDEomFfwDpQ1oSqDLzm6gafH8LStbYML8 j+/qGUTyg8d3yP/jrUL5UDO6dMkj+FV5bNi4qlue4uVLV7bx4o8= =flDx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----