On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:39:08PM -0500, Michael Welling wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:51:20PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 05:56:36PM -0500, Michael Welling wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 10:03:39PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > On Sun 2016-07-17 13:51:34, Michael Welling wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:42:09PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > On Sun 2016-07-17 13:24:45, Michael Welling wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 07:52:57PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > tsc2005 driver changed input device name, from > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > drivers/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.c: input_dev->name = "TSC2005 > > > > > > > > touchscreen"; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > to "TSC200X touchscreen". Unfortunately, X seems to propagate that > > > > > > > > name to userspace, where it is needed to be able to do > > > > Technically X _is_ userspace. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > xinput --set-prop --type=int ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > with the right arguments to calibrate touchscreen. (Touchscreen is > > > > > > > > unusable without calibration). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What to do with that? > > > > Hmm, I do not think we ever committed for the device names to be stable. > > You are supposed to locate touchscreen device based on its properties > > and you might need some heuristic if you encounter a system with more > > than one such touchscreen. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The input_dev name could be passed to the common probe function. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.c#L65 > > > > > > > > > > > > That would be preffered, I guess. > > > > > > > > > > > > How many stable releases are affected? > > > > > > > > > > Well this patch is 9 months old now. Lets see. > > > > > > > > > > It was introduced in v4.4-rc1. So v4.4, v4.5 and v4.6. > > > > > > > > Ok, thanks for the information. I believe changing it back to > > > > "TSC2005" version makes sense (and then fixing it in stable). > > > > Do we know how many users are affected? > > Anyone with an old N900 and the smarts to update the kernel. Soo... only Pavel? ;) > > > > > > > > > Lets see if the maintainer has any input before I submit a patch. > > > > I guess we could also pass the input_id structure to tsc200x_probe, fill > > the proper product ID (2004 or 2005) and derive the name form it. > > > > Okay do you really think this should be considered a regression? > > Should I go ahead with the patch? To "fix" it is a small change so we might as well do that, but I probably leave it off stable for now. 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
