From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: bcm5974: report ABS_MT events Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:45:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20091012154528.6830da60.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1255386223-4109-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> <1255386223-4109-2-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35910 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758504AbZJLWqL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:46:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1255386223-4109-2-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Henrik Rydberg Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:23:43 +0200 "Henrik Rydberg" wrote: > This patch makes bcm5974 report raw multi-touch (MT) data in the form > of ABS_MT events. The module parameter (nomt) may be used to turn off > the effect of this patch. > Why do we need a module parameter to disable the newly-added feature? IMO, your first patch ("input: bcm5974: retract efi-broken suspend_resume") is 2.6.32 material whereas this one is 2.6.33 material? This assumes that the two patches can be safely separated in this manner, which does appear to be the case.