From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] input: mouse: add qci touchpad driver Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:35:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20100819233532.GB21662@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1281631760-15589-1-git-send-email-nleeder@codeaurora.org> <20100813024912.GA2661@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4C65BF99.9030601@codeaurora.org> <201008131754.49488.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <4C6AC393.8000109@codeaurora.org> <4C6C52DE.4040700@codeaurora.org> <20100819053311.GE5832@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4C6DADDE.7030107@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:36302 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731Ab0HSXfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:35:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6DADDE.7030107@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Leeder Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Stepan Moskovchenko , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Horace Fu , Mandeep Singh Baines , Trilok Soni On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:19:10PM -0400, Neil Leeder wrote: > At this point I'm thinking that the interface is close to being able to > work with serio/psmouse, but just not close enough. The unreliability of > responding to basic commands as well as the length of data problems > indicates some custom driver is going to be needed. That could either be > Quanta's original touchpad driver I posted, or a modification of your > serio driver. I'd lean towards not having a serio driver which includes > workarounds for a specific device, but I'd appreciate hearing your > opinion. By any incredible stroke of luck, does it have a unique PNPID? /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id should give you some insight. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org