Re: Problems with Elantech touchpad in 3.18-rc2

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:25:06PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:06:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> > <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Linus, any guidance here? Can we live with such regression?
> > 
> > No. If people are already finding machines with problems, that means
> > that there will be a lot of them once distributions move to that
> > kernel.
> 
> My only argument here is that failure is much less severe than with MUX
> case: when in legacy mode the worst that is happening is that advanced
> features (multi-touch, two-finger scroilling, etc) do not work so the
> experience is similar to Windows box with no venrod drivers installed.
> Whereas when active MUX does not work but we are tying to use it your
> device is completely hosed.

So I slept on it and I decided that we should indeed revert the patch,
since it causes more grief to people with good hardware than I
expected. We should not punish owners of good hardware because some
vendors can't write their firmware.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry