From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Synaptics driver considered harmful
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:49:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030808134947.GD6914@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030806195931.GE2712@vitelus.com>
Hi!
> Why isn't there a config option for this driver? I just tried to
> upgrade to CVS HEAD (bkcvs) from a 2.4 kernel and everything went
> smoothly except my mouse didn't work until I appended
> psmouse_noext=1. This should not be necessary IMHO. It seems that even
> desktop users are forced to compile in this driver, and according at
> least to my experience, it can seriously break things. I don't see
> what the benefits of the synaptics driver are, and it sounds like
> this driver has been causing problems since it was released. The
> driver may well stabilize in the future, but right now it should not
> be a standard part of the PS/2 mouse driver.
Your fix is right, but vojtech seems to be on holidays. You may want to push through
akpm/linus.
Also make it depend on EXPERIMENTAL.
--
Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
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2003-08-06 19:59 Synaptics driver considered harmful Aaron Lehmann
2003-08-06 20:19 ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-08-08 13:49 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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