Re: [RESEND PATCH]: Add support for Intellimouse Mode in ALPS touchpad on Dell E2 series Laptops

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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:07:17PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > > > Resending modified patch to fix suspend/resume issues and restricting the
> > > > quirks to Dell portables only.
> > > > 
> > > > Dell E2 series laptops ( M4500, E6510, E6410 etc.) have ALPS touchpads
> > > > which are enabled by default as 3-byte generic PS/2 mouse mode. This
> > > > patch enables the 4-byte "Intellimouse Mode" ( e.g scrolling support).
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rezwanul_Kabir <Rezwanul_Kabir@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This seems to have never been merged. Adding Dmitry to CC -- Dmitry, do 
> > > you see any issues with the patch, or has it just slipped through cracks?
> > 
> > Jiri,
> > 
> > I do not want to merge this patch into mainline - it is a crutch that
> > only works on Dell boxes whereas these touchpads are in abundance
> > everywhere and we even have initialization sequence captured. So I am
> > hoping someone who has hardware would spend some time and write proper
> > support.
> 
> Good, thanks for letting me know. I'll try to get some hardware myself and 
> work on it (so far I have been only getting reports that it doesn't work 
> :) ).
> 

Great, and if you need testers - look here ;)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660

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Dmitry
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