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



On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 08:49 +0200, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> 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.

Great.  I'll queue these up for the next upload.

Ben.

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