Re: ALPS touchpad issues still exist in 2.6.12-rc4h

Roman Zippel
2005-06-25T13:08:36Z

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > I skipped 2.6.11 on my laptop, so I'm only noticing this problem now.
> > You didn't really answer the question, why has the _default_ been changed,
> > giving users the possibility to change the defaults is fine, but why is it
> > necessary to break existing setups?
>
> Because we added a driver for the pad. There was none before and the pad
> had to work in compatibility mode. It seems more beneficial to me to
> have the driver enabled by default (saving a lot of #ifdefs) than to
> keep perfect compatibility with a no-driver situation.

Adding a driver for it is nice, but that still doesn't question: why does
it change the default settings? If you can't restore the defaults
settings, then just detect the hardware but don't change it until it's
explicitely requested somehow.

bye, Roman