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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:35:32 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Neil Leeder <nleeder@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] input: mouse: add qci touchpad driver
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:19:10PM -0400, Neil Leeder wrote:

> At this point I'm thinking that the interface is close to being able to  
> work with serio/psmouse, but just not close enough. The unreliability of  
> responding to basic commands as well as the length of data problems  
> indicates some custom driver is going to be needed. That could either be  
> Quanta's original touchpad driver I posted, or a modification of your  
> serio driver. I'd lean towards not having a serio driver which includes  
> workarounds for a specific device, but I'd appreciate hearing your 
> opinion.

By any incredible stroke of luck, does it have a unique PNPID? 
/sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id should give you some insight.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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