Comment 163 for bug 296610

I am a bit uncertain about this patch in stable from the view of regression
avoidance. Looking over the patch its hard to tell for certain whether the path
of execution is the same as before for the non-interleaved protocol.
Dmitry, how do you feel about it? Or maybe there has even be positive testing
with non-interleaved hardware with that patch.

-Stefan

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> From: Sebastian Kapfer <email address hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:39:50 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Input: ALPS - add interleaved protocol support (Dell E6x00 series)
>
> commit 1d9f26262aef6d63ff65eba0fd5f1583f342b69b upstream
>
> Properly handle version of the protocol where standard PS/2 packets
> from trackpoint are stuffed into middle (byte 3-6) of the standard
> ALPS packets when both the touchpad and trackpoint are used together.
>
> The patch is based on work done by Matthew Chapman and additional
> research done by David Kubicek and Erik Osterholm:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/296610
>
> Many thanks to David Kubicek for his efforts in researching fine points
> of this new version of the protocol, especially interaction between pad
> and stick in these models.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Kapfer <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <email address hidden>
> ---
>
> Cherrypick to 2.6.31 by Andy Isaacson <email address hidden>. Tested on
> Dell E4300.
>
> drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> drivers/input/mouse/alps.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>