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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: ulrik.debie-os@e2big.org
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] elantech: Add support for trackpoint found on some v3 models
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:13:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140612221351.GA8983@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140612190344.GA20952@lantern>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:03:45PM +0200, ulrik.debie-os@e2big.org wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Without this patch the elantech.c driver will still bind to the
> touchpad, and then get out of sync each time the user touches
> the trackpoint or the 3 mouse buttons associated with the trackpoint.
> 
> This out of sync will result in a few dmesg lines and a few lost
> touchpad input events. The fact that the trackpoint + buttons itself
> do not work at all is a minor annoyance compared to the sync loss
> effect on the touchpad events.
> 
> This resulted in multiple bug reports with patches:
> http://tojaj.com/fedora-20-howto-fix-elantech-trackpoint-on-lenovo-thinkpad-l430/
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/27763
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48161
> 
> Hans suggested me to consider a cc:stable.

Broken hardware is never nice, but as this isn't a regression, and has
never worked, asking to update to a new kernel seems reasonable.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-12 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-14 20:51 [PATCH] Input: Support in the elantech driver of the trackpoint present on for instance Lenovo L530 Ulrik De Bie
2014-03-20 19:59 ` ulrik.debie-os
2014-06-12 18:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Ulrik De Bie
2014-06-12 18:15   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] elantech: Add support for trackpoint found on some v3 models Ulrik De Bie
2014-06-12 18:48     ` Greg KH
2014-06-12 19:03       ` ulrik.debie-os
2014-06-12 22:13         ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-06-13  6:24     ` David Herrmann
     [not found]       ` <539AA71D.2040808@redhat.com>
2014-06-13  7:39         ` David Herrmann

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