Re: Why Cypress does not upstream its trackpad driver?

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On 11/07/2012 06:26 PM, David Solda wrote:
> Dmitry, all,
>
> To clarify my comment.  Our protocol utilizes 8 bytes which are needed in our driver.  In order for the Linux system to accept 8 bytes of data, the Linux psmouse system driver is required to be modified.  Without this modification, the driver that you are referring to will not work correctly.  The psmouse system driver change that would be required is the item that would be rejected.
>
> I appreciate your comments and of course, if the driver could be upstreamed, it would (we already have I2C drivers updstreamed for Chrome systems), but there is a difference here.
>
> I will again look into the possibility of what you are requesting, however, the changes are extremely low if not zero that it will be accepted.

Why? If drivers were kept out of the kernel because the hardware they 
are designed to run requires strange things or was badly designed, there 
would be a lot fewer drivers in the kernel than there are today. 
Firmware and hardware frequently does bizarre or nonsensical things and 
we just have to deal with it.

>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:16 PM
> To: David Solda
> Cc: Troy Abercrombia; Kamal Mostafa; Ozan Çağlayan; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-input@vger.kernel.org; customercare; mario_limonciello@dell.com
> Subject: Re: Why Cypress does not upstream its trackpad driver?
>
> Hi David,
>
> On Wednesday, November 07, 2012 06:30:11 PM David Solda wrote:
>> Kamal,
>>
>> My name is Dave Solda and I would be happy to answer any other
>> questions that you have. Troy's response is correct however as in
>> order to support the default Linux mouse class, our firmware would
>> also have to be modified to do so, which cannot be done in system. Our
>> packet protocol maxes out at an 8 byte packet, which requires a change
>> to the Linux standard in this case.
>
> I am unable to parse this... I do not believe anyone asks you to change your firmware and if your protocol needs 8 bytes to transmit device state - that's fine.
>
>> Our goal in working with canonical was to provide something on Linux
>> that would support multi-touch and not only have default single finger
>> movement supported.
>
>> If I am mistaken and he Linux kernel would accept this, then we can
>> proceed to upstream, however all indications we have is that this
>> patch would be rejected.  If you (or others on from the locus alias)
>> have any inputs, I would be happy to receive them.
>
> This really depends on whether the changes to the psmouse framework make sense or not. Please start submitting patches for review/discussion and we can go from there.
>
> Thanks.
>
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