Re: ALPS touchpad issues still exist in 2.6.12-rc4h

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-25T12:48:27Z

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:34:35PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > > More than this, with every kernel (at least since the very early 2.4
> > > ones) up to 2.6.10 the ALPS touchpad has worked just fine through
> > > input/mice or the psaux device - why has this changed in 2.6.11,
> >
> > Because some people do not want tapping and some people do not like
> > default sensitivity and some like having virtual scrolling while other
> > want to have different actions assigned to corner taps.
>
> 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.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR