From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH 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 Message-ID: <20140612221351.GA8983@kroah.com> References: <20140214205126.GB15526@lantern> <1402596901-28784-1-git-send-email-ulrik.debie-os@e2big.org> <1402596901-28784-2-git-send-email-ulrik.debie-os@e2big.org> <20140612184844.GA25788@kroah.com> <20140612190344.GA20952@lantern> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140612190344.GA20952@lantern> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org To: ulrik.debie-os@e2big.org Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede , David Herrmann List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org 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