From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andres Salomon Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: psmouse: create an 'enabled' sysfs attribute to squelch mouse Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:19:05 -0800 Message-ID: <20120225111905.4b8ae970@debxo> References: <20120217180634.6162196e@debxo> <20120224082158.GA18291@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lunge.queued.net ([173.255.254.236]:53762 "EHLO lunge.queued.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756840Ab2BYTTK (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:19:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120224082158.GA18291@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Alessandro Rubini , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Fox , Martin Langhoff On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:21:58 -0800 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Andres, > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:06:34PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > From: Paul Fox > > > > on OLPC XO laptops, at least one model of touchpad (sentelic) > > emits continuous jittery motion reports when the laptop is > > configured in "ebook" mode. the touchpad is inaccessible in > > that configuration, so we simply disable it. > > > > these motion reports will wake the SoC when put to sleep, so simply > > ignoring the events is not a possibilty; the device must be > > disabled. > > Can you switch the AUX serio port into manual bind mode (viqa sysfs) > and simply connect/disconnect the touchpad as needed (again via > sysfs)? > Thanks for the suggestion. We're in the process of testing that; it does stop the touchpad from transmitting data, but there are some reinit issues to be investigated. Quoth pgf, "the added latency due to the reinit when we enter/exit ebook mode might or might not be acceptable. and our touchpad (sentelic) needs some boot time initialization from user-level -- we're not sure whether we'll need to redo some or all of that. (we do seem to lose the current values of vscroll and hscroll, for instance.)"