On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:56 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:22:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 16:06 +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 14:07:44 (+0200 CEST), Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > > > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 00:35 +0200, Eloi COUTANT wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > I confirm that Julien's patch is efficient on Samsung RC510. > > > > > I have no problems anymore : one, two and three fingers are working, > > > > > "wheels" too ! > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Julien, please can you provide a list of *upstream* changes. We will > > > > not apply a large patch with no such references. > > > > > > I have not written that patch at all, just made available the "original" > > > DKMS tree so that people can test it easily. > > > > > > The patch was written by Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> and is > > > available on LaunchPad bug #681904 [0]. > > > > > > All the patches, Ubuntu builts and dkms .deb are available at: > > > http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp681904/ > > > > OK, so I see this patch: > > http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp681904/linux-3.0.0-8.10~lp681904v201108052055/0001-Input-elantech-Add-v3-hardware-support.patch > > which looks like something that could go upstream. But it hasn't, or at > > least it's not visible in linux-next. > > That patch will not be going upstream. Elantech has submitted more > comprehensive updates to the driver that were developed in parallel (see > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/63 for the most recent revision). > > We are carrying an updated version of the above patch temporarily until > Elantech's solution makes it upstream. In practice that probably means > we'll use my patch for Ubuntu 11.10 and switch to Elantech's solution in > 12.04. The advantage to the patch we're carrying now versus Elantech's > is that it doesn't functionally modify the v1 or v2 touchpad support, > and thus shouldn't carry any risk of regression for those devices. I've > attached a copy of the updated patch. Thanks, but I think we'll wait for the official version. Ben.
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