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From: Marco Chiappero <marco@absence.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/25] sony-laptop: add touchpad enable/disable control
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Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:15:32 +0200
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Il 04/06/2011 09:09, Mattia Dongili ha scritto:
> the point is that disabling the touchpad is already possible via a
> common interface already,

Well, disabling/powering off and ignoring are not synonyms. It would be 
better to have userspace disabling the touchpad when this feature is 
present and ignoring it when not.

> if there is any additional win in implementing
> the switch in sony-laptop then it's worth using this sony-specific
> quirks otherwise it's totally pointless.

I cannot see how such small code and file will harm, people that don't 
care can ignore it.