Hi, This driver [0] was written with a cooperation of Cypress, Dell and Canonical Engineers within the last 3-4 months. It is very nice that Cypress as a vendor cooperated with Canonical (Because Canonical works with Dell for their Project Sputnik and Dell XPS13 is used as the main hardware for that project and Dell XPS13 has this type of trackpad, Bingo!), and I am also glad that Ubuntu users benefits from this driver. The driver brings multi-touch scrolling, disable-while-tapping and makes Fn+Fx touchpad disable/enable work for not only Dell XPS13 but for all laptops having this trackpad (My Lenovo Ultrabook U300s for example, I tested the patches on fedora 17's 3.6 kernel and it works quiet nice) But what I am not getting that why NOBODY from Cypress/Canonical/Dell isn't bothering to push this driver to upstream? Is it too hard? I don't think so as the patches are quite non-invasive and small. Is the only distribution around is Ubuntu? Is the only laptop sold in the world is Dell XPS13 with an Ubuntu? I'm not trying to be impolite but it hurts me to see that a vendor produces an open-source driver for its device but makes use of it only through a specific distribution. If Cypress is just beginning developing open-source drivers for their devices, I hope that after this mail they will be much sensitive about the issue and push their drivers even before the release of their devices to make user experience flawless. (I googled and searched the archives of LKML and linux-input but couldn't find a discussion or patch series about the driver. If I missed it, ignore the whole stuff above) [0]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/178903/ -- Ozan Çağlayan Research Assistant Galatasaray University - Computer Engineering Dept. http://www.ozancaglayan.com -- 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
