From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH] psmouse: disable the synaptics extension on OLPC machines. Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:02:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20101218070205.GA15847@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20101217210939.19b6111a@queued.net> <20101218054927.GA14718@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20101217221447.375b9977@queued.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:48537 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751686Ab0LRHCM (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:02:12 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101217221447.375b9977@queued.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Andres Salomon Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@laptop.org, pgf@laptop.org, James Cameron On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:14:47PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:49:28 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:09:39PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > > > OLPC has switched to a Synaptics touchpad. It turns out that it's > > > pretty useless in absolute mode. This patch looks for an OLPC > > > system (via DMI tables), and refuses to init Synaptics mode in > > > that scenario (falling back to relative mode). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon > > > > Andres, > > > > Can we do what hgpk does and add "depend on !OLPC" to the Kconfig > > instead? > > > > Thanks. > > > > That wouldn't work for distro kernels, unfortunately. Currently the > kernels that OLPC releases disable CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS. I'd > like to use a stock distribution kernel, which would need to enable > both CONFIG_OLPC *and* CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS.. Hence the > motivation for this patch. :) What about just adding psmouse.proto=exps then? -- Dmitry