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From: Stephen Evanchik <evanchsa@gmail.com>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:17:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a71293c205020405174ffa8d9d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050204063520.GD2329@ucw.cz>

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:35:20 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >  /*
> > > + * Try to initialize the IBM TrackPoint
> > > + */
> > > +   if (max_proto > PSMOUSE_PS2 && trackpoint_init(psmouse) == 0) {
> > > +           psmouse->vendor = "IBM";
> > > +           psmouse->name = "TrackPoint";
> > > +
> > > +           return PSMOUSE_PS2;
> >
> > Why PSMOUSE_PS2? Reconnect will surely not like it.
> 
> Indeed. IIRC this patch killed wheel mouse detection in ubuntu.

Earlier versions of the patch didn't disable the device while probing
so events could be interpreted as the magic ID of a TrackPoint. It now
resets and disables the PS/2 device before detection but not after a
detect failure.

I'll clean that up so its more sensible.


Stephen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-04 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-03 22:43 [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-04  0:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-04  3:52   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-04  4:39     ` Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-13 19:13     ` Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-13 19:31       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-13 20:31         ` Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-13 23:50       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-04  6:35   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-04  6:46     ` Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2005-02-04  6:52     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-04  6:54       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-04 14:17         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-04 14:45           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-05  6:56             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-05 12:24               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-04 13:17     ` Stephen Evanchik [this message]
2005-02-04 13:45       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-04 14:12         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-05 10:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-07 10:14   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-13 19:07     ` Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-13 19:13       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-06 20:17 ` Domen Puncer

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