This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte P57 to the keyboard reset table
to the 3.18-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:
input-i8042-add-gigabyte-p57-to-the-keyboard-reset-table.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 697c5d8a36768b36729533fb44622b35d56d6ad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:36:16 -0700
Subject: Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte P57 to the keyboard reset table
From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 697c5d8a36768b36729533fb44622b35d56d6ad0 upstream.
Similar to other Gigabyte laptops, the touchpad on P57 requires a
keyboard reset to detect Elantech touchpad correctly.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1594214
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
@@ -805,6 +805,13 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __init
},
},
{
+ /* Gigabyte P57 - Elantech touchpad */
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "GIGABYTE"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "P57"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
/* Schenker XMG C504 - Elantech touchpad */
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "XMG"),
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/input-i8042-add-gigabyte-p57-to-the-keyboard-reset-table.patch