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Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/25] sony-laptop: add touchpad enable/disable control
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Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:28:31 +0200
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Il 04/06/2011 14:46, Matthew Garrett ha scritto:
> This feature is present in enough machines that we really need some
> standardised way to present it, rather than it just being yet another
>  random sysfs file.

I agree.

> The problem is working out a good way to standardise
> it.

I know this too, and unfortunately I cannot help here. But, from the 
user standpoint, not having a feature that can be implemented (somehow) 
and may be useful is really bad.