Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:42:13 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       pizza@shaftnet.org
Cc: jhf@rivenstone.net
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4
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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:16:21AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>     The patch Solomon posted is finally enough for me to use 2.5 on my
> laptop, but it doesn't restore all the functionality available via
> tpconfig (and friends), so that's a regression that could probably be
> called a 'must-fix'.  If he could make an absolute mode driver work it
> would have more features than tpconfig, and also not break the input
> layer's abstraction of pointing devices, IMHO. 
>     Without any patch, 2.5 is a frustratingly unusable experience for
> me, and though I might have been the first vocal laptop user, I'm sure
> I won't be the last.

My laptop seems to be doing fine. Touchpads could be very important to
some people, though.

It's a large overstatement to say this makes all laptops unusable.


-- wli
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