Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:02:06 -0800 | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] psmouse: disable the synaptics extension on OLPC machines. |
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:14:47PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:49:28 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:09:39PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > > > OLPC has switched to a Synaptics touchpad. It turns out that it's > > > pretty useless in absolute mode. This patch looks for an OLPC > > > system (via DMI tables), and refuses to init Synaptics mode in > > > that scenario (falling back to relative mode). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> > > > > Andres, > > > > Can we do what hgpk does and add "depend on !OLPC" to the Kconfig > > instead? > > > > Thanks. > > > > That wouldn't work for distro kernels, unfortunately. Currently the > kernels that OLPC releases disable CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS. I'd > like to use a stock distribution kernel, which would need to enable > both CONFIG_OLPC *and* CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS.. Hence the > motivation for this patch. :)
What about just adding psmouse.proto=exps then?
-- Dmitry
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