From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reset ps/2 port should psmouse_probe fail before retrying Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:10:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20100421171055.GB10566@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <4BC8EA42.6030507@canonical.com> <1271502098.4155.27.camel@lovely> <4BC9D444.3090802@canonical.com> <1271523195.3676.5.camel@lovely> <4BCC77B4.5030703@canonical.com> <1271723857.6652.6.camel@lovely> <4BCE17CC.8020804@canonical.com> <20100421063328.GJ4364@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4BCF2263.40306@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:52537 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754138Ab0DURLC (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:11:02 -0400 Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so148788vws.19 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BCF2263.40306@canonical.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: "Peter M. Petrakis" Cc: Christoph Fritz , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, rubini@cvml.unipv.it On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Peter M. Petrakis wrote: > The laptop is a Dell "yet to be officially released" laptop, > the touchpad reports itself as: > > Apr 21 11:24:05 ubuntu-laptop kernel: [ 983.174813] > input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14 Umm, Synaptics but not using SynPS protocol. Some users will not be happy... Is it after cold boot or resume? Also, is it a multiouch model (does the box have the $OTHER_OS on it)? > > I didn't find any additional attributes in sysfs that could give me > the fw revision or model. It doesn't show up in dmidecode either. > > With regards to retrying the probe... which resume path? psmouse > currently doesn't have one. Thanks. That'd be "reconnect" in serio speak, so you need to look into psmouse_reconnect(). -- Dmitry