From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dsd@laptop.org, pgf@laptop.org, James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] psmouse: disable the synaptics extension on OLPC machines.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:14:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101217221447.375b9977@queued.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101218054927.GA14718@core.coreip.homeip.net>
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:49:28 -0800
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:09:39PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> >
> > OLPC has switched to a Synaptics touchpad. It turns out that it's
> > pretty useless in absolute mode. This patch looks for an OLPC
> > system (via DMI tables), and refuses to init Synaptics mode in
> > that scenario (falling back to relative mode).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
>
> Andres,
>
> Can we do what hgpk does and add "depend on !OLPC" to the Kconfig
> instead?
>
> Thanks.
>
That wouldn't work for distro kernels, unfortunately. Currently the
kernels that OLPC releases disable CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS. I'd
like to use a stock distribution kernel, which would need to enable
both CONFIG_OLPC *and* CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS.. Hence the
motivation for this patch. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 5:09 [PATCH] psmouse: disable the synaptics extension on OLPC machines Andres Salomon
2010-12-18 5:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-18 6:14 ` Andres Salomon [this message]
2010-12-18 7:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-18 10:00 ` Daniel Drake
2010-12-19 8:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-12-19 8:32 ` Andres Salomon
2010-12-19 8:37 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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