Re: ALPS v7 trackpad passthrough to Thinkpad trackpoint

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ALPS devices does not support pass-throw mode like Synaptics devices.

Hmm... Then what are all of these references to passthrough in alps.c?
Does the alps driver use the term "passthrough" in a different way
than the synaptics driver does?

Are we 100% sure that alps devices can't do this? Is there any
possibility that we just don't know how to do it?

Thanks.

Ari

> But our ALPS driver is good and can detect packet from device contains
> data for touchpad or trackpoint. So ALPS driver create two input devices
> and send events to userspace via correct input device and userspace see
> that there are two different devices (touchpad and trackstick) and not
> one "combined".
>
> Looks like that ALPS devices does not support any speed or acceleration
> configuration, so everything needs to be implemented in software -- in
> userspace. X drivers already have such configuration ether via xorg.conf
> or runtime via xinput. Speed or acceleration can be configured per input
> device, so this is something which you probably want.
>
> --
> Pali Rohár
> pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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