Re: [PATCH] HID: magicmouse: ignore 'ivalid report id' while switching modes

[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>]

On 08/18/2011 09:48 AM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 09:36 AM, Jaikumar Ganesh wrote:
>> Hi Chase
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Chase Douglas
>> <chase.douglas@canonical.com <mailto:chase.douglas@canonical.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 08/17/2011 12:59 PM, Jaikumar Ganesh wrote:
>>     > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz <mailto:jkosina@suse.cz>>
>>     >
>>     > 23746a introduced this commit but was reverted in c3a492.
>>     > The trackpad uses report Ids which are not present in the
>>     > report descriptor. These reports ids are not documented
>>     > anywhere. There are devices in the market (Apple magic tracpkad,
>>     > BT version 2.0 is one such device) with the same device id,
>>     > which fail when we use 0xd7 as the report id. So we need the EIO
>>     > change of 23746a as a failsafe to work with these devices.
>>     >
>>     > Original Author: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz
>>     <mailto:jkosina@suse.cz>>
>>     >
>>     > Signed-off-by: Jaikumar Ganesh <jaikumarg@android.com
>>     <mailto:jaikumarg@android.com>>
>>
>>     I worry this may just be papering over a bug elsewhere in the system
>>     again. I'm going to try to git bisect this today.
>>
>>  
>> The original commit explains in detail why it used to work before, so
>> its not a regression in that sense. The commit was present in 2.6.39
>> stable tree too but was reverted in 3.0 tree. 
> 
> It was reverted because it was papering over a bug in the bluetooth
> stack, and when that bug was fixed this commit broke things again.
> 
> I've determined that there's a bug between Ubuntu's 3.0-1.2 and 3.0-2.3
> kernels. There does not appear to be any Ubuntu specific patches that
> went in between those versions that would affect this, but there was a
> rebase from upstream 3.0-rc3 to 3.0-rc4. There is likely a bug
> introduced sometime in there.
> 
> I'll be digging deeper...

After some more digging I realized that the bluetooth fix for some
devices went in at 3.0-rc4, just as the reversion of this patch went in.
Thus, my bisect of ubuntu kernels was unhelpful.

I decided to try a few tests:

3.0-rc0 kernel with the bluetooth fix and this patch reverted
2.6.39 kernel with the bluetooth fix (this patch was not committed yet)

Both failed to properly initialize the magic trackpad. The only
conclusion I can come up with is that there are some hardware
differences between the machine I am currently testing with, and the
machine I previously had the magicmouse working with.

If that's the case, the safest thing to do would be to apply this patch
with a tweak. Don't check only that -EIO is returned. Check for either
success or -EIO is returned. This should allow good and bad behaving
hardware to still function.

Jiri, do you want me to send a rework of the patch, or do you want to do
it yourself?

-- Chase