Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:08:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: ALPS touchpad issues still exist in 2.6.12-rc4h |
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Hi,
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > I skipped 2.6.11 on my laptop, so I'm only noticing this problem now. > > You didn't really answer the question, why has the _default_ been changed, > > giving users the possibility to change the defaults is fine, but why is it > > necessary to break existing setups? > > Because we added a driver for the pad. There was none before and the pad > had to work in compatibility mode. It seems more beneficial to me to > have the driver enabled by default (saving a lot of #ifdefs) than to > keep perfect compatibility with a no-driver situation.
Adding a driver for it is nice, but that still doesn't question: why does it change the default settings? If you can't restore the defaults settings, then just detect the hardware but don't change it until it's explicitely requested somehow.
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