Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 23/29] Input: silead - Always support 10 fingers

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi Pavel,

On 7/10/24 11:58 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 38a38f5a36da9820680d413972cb733349400532 ]
>>
>> When support for Silead touchscreens was orginal added some touchscreens
>> with older firmware versions only supported 5 fingers and this was made
>> the default requiring the setting of a "silead,max-fingers=10" uint32
>> device-property for all touchscreen models which do support 10 fingers.
>>
>> There are very few models with the old 5 finger fw, so in practice the
>> setting of the "silead,max-fingers=10" is boilerplate which needs to
>> be copy and pasted to every touchscreen config.
>>
>> Reporting that 10 fingers are supported on devices which only support
>> 5 fingers doesn't cause any problems for userspace in practice, since
>> at max 4 finger gestures are supported anyways. Drop the max_fingers
>> configuration and simply always assume 10 fingers.
> 
> This does not fix a serious bug, should not be in stable.

This patch is necessary for clean backporting of new DMI quirks added
to drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c, so IMHO it does make sense
as a stable series patch.

Regards,

Hans