On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:12:39PM -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@xxxxxxxxx> > > This fixes a regression introduced in Linux 2.6.2 where mice that > sporadically produce bad parity go crazy and start jumping around and > clicking randomly, which never happens in any version of Windows running > on the same hardware. The bugzilla bug is > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6105 > > The patch works by always accumulating a full PS/2 packet, then ignoring > the packet if any byte had a bad checksum. A month of testing it against > an affected mouse has revealed it works perfectly in practice. > > Signed-off-by: Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Andrew, an alternative path has been merged, please drop this one. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
