[PATCH] UBUNTU: (pre-stable): input: Support Clickpad devices in ClickZone mode

[Henrik Rydberg]

On 12/14/2010 11:06 PM, Robert Hooker wrote:

> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> 
> Add the experimental support of new Synatpics "Clickpad" devices.
> 
> This device reports the click as the middle-button, but it doesn't set
> proper capability bits.  Thus the driver needs to check the product-id
> and forces to enable the button detection.
> 
> In this patch, the device behaves as "ClickZone" mode, and gives
> compatible events as other normal synaptics devices so that user-space
> app works as is.  In the ClickZone mode, the buttons are emulated as
> clicks in the bottom button zone.  Left and right clicks are judged by
> the touch position.  Clicking the narrow middle point in the button
> zone gives a middle click.
> 
> Dragging can be done by keeping the button down and touching the normal
> area again.  Strangely, the sequence to click after touching the area
> doesn't work with this device by unknown reason...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516329
> 
> Acked-by: Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> 
> Fixed clickpad capability checks to only check the 0x0c cap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hooker <robert.hooker at canonical.com>
> ---


Just a heads-up that this will conflict again as we move to 2.6.38.

Thanks,
Henrik