Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:44:35 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 |
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:42:40AM +0200, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > > The synaptics driver, if it wished to demultiplex a true mouse protocol > > > > behind the pad without an active multiplexing controller, could easily > > > > create a new serio port, to which the psmouse driver would attach, > > > > detect, and drive the mouse. It's a bit crazy, but it should work. > > > > hmm, that is clever. But I am afraid it will not work: the master (the > > > That's sad. Anyway, we'll have to find a solution for this. Either the > > synaptics driver parsing the communication on the new serio port (which > > isn't as complex as it looks) and detecting the packet length from that, > > or some way the psmouse driver can tell it what packet size it uses. > > 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.
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