Bug#740042: linux: The module chromeos_laptop is not enabled in kernel 3.13, needed to enable touchpad on chromebooks

[Lance Geroso <Gero3977@gmail.com>]

Source: linux
Version: 3.13
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

    I upgraded the kernel from 3.12 to 3.13 and found my touchpad was not working. This is due to the fact that 3.13 does not have the chromeos_laptop module anymore.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

    Nothing

   * What was the outcome of this action?

    The touchpad no longer works because of missing chromeos_laptop module

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

    I expected the touchpad to continue to work and the chromeos_laptop module to be included with the update.


Thanks to the folks at #debian-next on OFTC it seems that the modules were moved to a new directory. Because of this a new kernel config line needs to be toggled to enable the chromeos_laptop module again. Info of this is here, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ab0431059ed0d0e3a9e532ad0488ada25021249d


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash