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

[Brad Figg]

On 12/15/2010 06:06 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 12/15/2010 03:44 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> No worries on that score since Maverick won't get pulled forward anyways.
>
> As suggested, I like the revert, then the patch from Takashi Iwai (which
> should be marked as SAUCE). Its pretty close to what is coded in Linus'
> repo. (see 5f57d67da87332a9a1ba8fa7a33bf0680e1c76e7)
>
> Acked-by: Tim Gardner<tim.gardner at canonical.com>
>

Just to be clear, the only difference between the reverted patch and
the new one are the two line changes that Robert has made to the original
patch by Takashi.

Acked-by: Brad Figg<brad.figg at canonical.com>

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