Re: [PATCH] HID: multitouch: fix Dell Precision 7550 and 7750 button type

["José Expósito" <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Giving a little bit more context here (and quoting Peter).
> 
> """
> The problem with [37ef4c19b4] is that it removes functionality -
> before a clickpad was falsely advertised but the button worked, now in
> the affected devices it simply no longer works because the button code
> gets filtered. And user-space can't work around this.
> ...
> So the main question remains: why are we doing this?
> 
> And the answer here is: because libinput can't handle clickpads with
> right buttons. But that's not really true either, libinput just
> doesn't want to, and for no other reason than that it's easier to
> handle it this way.
> """
> 
> So basically, we tried to fix a choice on libinput assuming that all
> devices are perfect, for the only sake of making it easy for libinput.
> But the solution prevents further tweaks, and we then need to manually
> quirk devices in the kernel which involves a slightly heavier
> difficulty for end users than just dropping a config file or changing
> a setting in their UI.
> 
> With that said, this patch is:
> Nacked-by: me
> 
> José, could you send a revert of 37ef4c19b4, and add "Cc:
> stable@vger.kernel.org" and all the other tags for the regression
> tracker bot?

Sure, for reference, this patch should be ignored in favor of:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20220321184404.20025-1-jose.exposito89@gmail.com/T/

Jose