This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers: staging: nvec: remove bogus reset command for PS/2 interface to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-staging-nvec-remove-bogus-reset-command-for-ps-2-interface.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d8f8a74d5fece355d2234e1731231d1aebc66b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:22:08 +0300 Subject: drivers: staging: nvec: remove bogus reset command for PS/2 interface From: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx> commit d8f8a74d5fece355d2234e1731231d1aebc66b38 upstream. This command was sent behind serio's back and the answer to it was confusing atkbd probe function which lead to the elantech touchpad getting detected as a keyboard. To prevent this from happening just let every party do its part of the job. Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c +++ b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_ps2.c @@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ static int nvec_mouse_probe(struct platf { struct nvec_chip *nvec = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent); struct serio *ser_dev; - char mouse_reset[] = { NVEC_PS2, SEND_COMMAND, PSMOUSE_RST, 3 }; ser_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ser_dev) @@ -127,9 +126,6 @@ static int nvec_mouse_probe(struct platf serio_register_port(ser_dev); - /* mouse reset */ - nvec_write_async(nvec, mouse_reset, sizeof(mouse_reset)); - return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/revert-staging-nvec-ps2-change-serio-type-to-passthrough.patch queue-4.8/drivers-staging-nvec-remove-bogus-reset-command-for-ps-2-interface.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html