Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics - add retry mechanism for reconnect

[James M Leddy <james.leddy@canonical.com>]

I'll have someone test it out. Thanks for the patch.

On 04/10/2013 01:40 AM, Chung-Yih Wang (王崇懿) wrote:
> Hi Eric Miao, James Leddy and Daniel Manrique,
> 
> If possible, could you give it a try for the patch I have on your device(s)?
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2156601/
> 
> I think we may address similar issue here. The synaptics device may not
> respond to the commands in synaptics_reconnect() for stress test of
> suspend/resume, so my patch is trying to do 
> the 'retry' for all requests in the reconnect path if one fails.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com <mailto:dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Chung-yih,
> 
>     On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:40:21PM +0800, Chung-yih Wang wrote:
>     > On the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, the Synaptics ClickPad will
>     sometimes not
>     > send an "0xFA" PS/2 ACK in response to a command byte during the
>     reconnect
>     > sequence following a resume from suspend. From our experiments,
>     the failure can
>     > happen during any byte of any of the commands in the reconnect batch.
>     >
>     > This failure results in a timeout in the psmouse driver. In
>     addition, the
>     > ClickPad will often also respond to the next PS/2 command byte
>     with an "0xFE"
>     > PS/2 RESEND response.
> 
>     Since you control the firmware of the device can you figure out under
>     what condition the touchpad does not acknowledge the commands sent to it
>     and fix it there?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>     --
>     Dmitry
> 
>