ACK: [Xenial][SRU][Wily][lts-vivid][lts-utopic][Trusty][PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Input: synaptics - handle spurious release of trackstick buttons, again

[Brad Figg]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:04:24PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553811
> 
> == Xenial and SRU Justification ==
> 
> For the new Lenovo T460s, the kernel always reports both a press and a release 
> event for the physical Trackpoint mouse buttons (above the touchpad), even if 
> the button is pressed and held down. A tap-and-hold on the touchpad works as expected.
> 
> This prevents, for example, drag and drop to work unless you use the touchpad to 
> hold the click. This bug seems to affect multiple users.
> 
> This patch was submitted upstream, but it has not landed in mainline as of yet.  That
> is why I'm submitting it as SAUCE.  See upstream bug:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114321
> 
> This patch applys cleanly to all releases requested.
> 
> 
> == Fix ==
> Author: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at redhat.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 14 19:37:12 2016 +0100
> 
>     Input: synaptics - handle spurious release of trackstick buttons, again
> 
> 
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> 
> 
> Benjamin Tissoires (1):
>   Input: synaptics - handle spurious release of trackstick buttons,
>     again
> 
>  drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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Note, this patch is not in Linus' tree.

The test kernels have good, positive testing results.

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