Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Why Cypress does not upstream its trackpad driver? | Date | Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:15:49 -0800 |
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Hi David,
On Wednesday, November 07, 2012 06:30:11 PM David Solda wrote: > Kamal, > > My name is Dave Solda and I would be happy to answer any other questions > that you have. Troy's response is correct however as in order to support > the default Linux mouse class, our firmware would also have to be modified > to do so, which cannot be done in system. Our packet protocol maxes out at > an 8 byte packet, which requires a change to the Linux standard in this > case.
I am unable to parse this... I do not believe anyone asks you to change your firmware and if your protocol needs 8 bytes to transmit device state - that's fine.
> Our goal in working with canonical was to provide something on Linux that > would support multi-touch and not only have default single finger movement > supported.
> If I am mistaken and he Linux kernel would accept this, then we can proceed > to upstream, however all indications we have is that this patch would be > rejected. If you (or others on from the locus alias) have any inputs, I > would be happy to receive them.
This really depends on whether the changes to the psmouse framework make sense or not. Please start submitting patches for review/discussion and we can go from there.
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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