Bug#703607: Please include Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver in linux-image-3.2.0-*

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@gmail.com>]

On 03:29 Wed 27 Mar     , Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 12:37 +0200, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > On 18:20 Sun 24 Mar     , Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:21 +0200, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> > > > The trackpad driver from 3.9rc1 is not trivial to backport since the 
> > > > kernel's
> > > > multitouch input API has changed significantly.
> > > 
> > > I would still prefer to use a backport of the upstream version, so we
> > > can be sure that the functionality is equivalent and there shouldn't be
> > > a regression when users upgrade to the later upstream version.
> > > 
> > > Could you test the attached series of patches?
> > > 
> > > Ben.
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick response, unfortunately the kernel with the 
> > patchset applied failed to build at first.
> 
> I did build-test before sending you patches, but I must have failed to
> refresh the patch files after my last changes.  Sorry about that.
> 
> Patch 8 looks like fixing a crasher rather than a compile error.

Yes, it was a NULL pointer dereference causing the kernel to crash at module
load time.

I used it for a couple of hours yesterday and it's been stable sofar.

Thanks again,
Apollon