Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:14:47 -0800 | | From | Andres Salomon <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] psmouse: disable the synaptics extension on OLPC machines. |
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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. :)
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