Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::1:20;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <20220321184404.20025-1-jose.exposito89@gmail.com> <44abc738-1532-63fa-9cd1-2b3870a963bc@leemhuis.info>
In-Reply-To: <44abc738-1532-63fa-9cd1-2b3870a963bc@leemhuis.info>
From:   Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:30:37 +0200
Message-ID: <CAO-hwJJweSuSBE_18ZbvqS12eX9GcS+aJoe7SRFJdASOrN3bqw@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Input: clear BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads"
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc:     =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6kgRXhww7NzaXRv?= <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
        Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>,
        "open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
        "3.8+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>, regressions@lists.linux.dev,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Precedence: bulk

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:27 PM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker.
>
> On 21.03.22 19:44, Jos=C3=A9 Exp=C3=B3sito wrote:
> > This reverts commit 37ef4c19b4c659926ce65a7ac709ceaefb211c40.
> >
> > The touchpad present in the Dell Precision 7550 and 7750 laptops
> > reports a HID_DG_BUTTONTYPE of type MT_BUTTONTYPE_CLICKPAD. However,
> > the device is not a clickpad, it is a touchpad with physical buttons.
> >
> > In order to fix this issue, a quirk for the device was introduced in
> > libinput [1] [2] to disable the INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD property:
> >
> >       [Precision 7x50 Touchpad]
> >       MatchBus=3Di2c
> >       MatchUdevType=3Dtouchpad
> >       MatchDMIModalias=3Ddmi:*svnDellInc.:pnPrecision7?50*
> >       AttrInputPropDisable=3DINPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD
> >
> > However, because of the change introduced in 37ef4c19b4 ("Input: clear
> > BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads") the BTN_RIGHT key bit is not mapped
> > anymore breaking the device right click button and making impossible to
> > workaround it in user space.
> >
> > In order to avoid breakage on other present or future devices, revert
> > the patch causing the issue.
> >
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests=
/481 [1]
> > Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1868789  [2]
> > Signed-off-by: Jos=C3=A9 Exp=C3=B3sito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
> > [...]
>
> Jiri, Benjamin, what the status here? Sure, this is not a crucial
> regression and we are in the middle of the merge window, but it looks
> like nothing has happened for a week now. Or was progress made somewhere
> and I just missed it?

No, I think it just wasn't picked up by the input maintainer yet
(Dmitry, now in CC).

FWIW:
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>

Jos=C3=A9, please do not forget to add the input maintainer when you target
the input tree, not the HID one :)

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
> #regzbot ^backmonitor:
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/s5htubv32s8.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
>
> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
>
> P.S.: As the Linux kernel's regression tracker I'm getting a lot of
> reports on my table. I can only look briefly into most of them and lack
> knowledge about most of the areas they concern. I thus unfortunately
> will sometimes get things wrong or miss something important. I hope
> that's not the case here; if you think it is, don't hesitate to tell me
> in a public reply, it's in everyone's interest to set the public record
> straight.
>
>