Re: [PATCH 4.19 43/49] Input: trackpoint - add new trackpoint variant IDs

Vincent Huang
2020-09-24T02:16:51Z

On 9/24/20 4:42 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Tue 2020-09-22 18:16:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:39:57PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> Hi!
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>>>>> From: Vincent Huang <vincent.huang@tw.synaptics.com>
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>>>>> commit 6c77545af100a72bf5e28142b510ba042a17648d upstream.
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>>>>> Add trackpoint variant IDs to allow supported control on Synaptics
>>>>> trackpoints.
>>>> This just adds unused definitions. I don't think it is needed in
>>>> stable.
>>> It add support for a new device.
>> No, it does not. Maybe in mainline there's followup patch that adds
>> such support, but that's not in 4.19.
> es, indeed, there is a chunk missing, so this patch is incomplete. It
> will not cause any issues if applied, so I'll leave it to Greg to decide
> what to do with this.
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> Vincent, there needs to be a change in trackpoint_start_protocol() to
> mark these new IDs as valid. Was it s3ent in a separate patch and I
> missed it?

Hi Dmitry:

You are right, I think the code is missing in start_protocol(), I'll
send one patch to complete it.

Thanks

Vincent

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