Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265270AbTFMIpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:45:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265276AbTFMIpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:45:06 -0400 Received: from imf.math.ku.dk ([130.225.103.32]:19930 "EHLO imf.math.ku.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265270AbTFMIpC (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:45:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:58:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Berg Larsen To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 In-Reply-To: <20030613094435.B29859@ucw.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 28 On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > hmm, that is clever. But I am afraid it will not work: the master (the > > If the synaptic driver can deduce the protocol by listning to the probing > > communication, it might as well just sent it itself. > > Not the protocol. Just the number of bytes per packet. That's quite a > different amount of understanding of the data passed through. Ahh, that would not work either. The description of master/guest was probably not the best: The protocolbytes from the guest do not even reach the KBC because the master (touchpad) is ignoring them. So as soon the guest accepts an protocol more advanced than ps/2 the master must be told how many bytes is used in the protocol. Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/