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SubjectRe: [PATCH] HID: multitouch: do not blindly set EV_KEY or EV_ABS bits
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Now that input core insists on having dev->absinfo when device claims to
> generate EV_ABS in its dev->evbit, we should not be blindly setting that
> bit.
>
> The code in question might have been needed before input_set_abs_params()
> started setting EV_ABS in device's evbit, but not anymore, and is now
> breaking devices such as SMART SPNL-6075 Touchscreen.
>
> Fixes: 6ecfe51b4082 ("Input: refuse to register absolute devices ...")
> Reported-by: Matthias Fend <Matthias.Fend@wolfvision.net>
> Tested-by: Matthias Fend <Matthias.Fend@wolfvision.net>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Jiri, Benjamin, I marked it for stable as it causes regressions in 4.12
> reported by users. Please take a look.

Thanks for a quick fix, Dmitry. Queued in for-4.13/upstream-fixes branch.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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