On Wed 2024-07-10 11:59:48, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > On 7/10/24 11:58 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> [ Upstream commit 38a38f5a36da9820680d413972cb733349400532 ] > >> > >> When support for Silead touchscreens was orginal added some touchscreens > >> with older firmware versions only supported 5 fingers and this was made > >> the default requiring the setting of a "silead,max-fingers=10" uint32 > >> device-property for all touchscreen models which do support 10 fingers. > >> > >> There are very few models with the old 5 finger fw, so in practice the > >> setting of the "silead,max-fingers=10" is boilerplate which needs to > >> be copy and pasted to every touchscreen config. > >> > >> Reporting that 10 fingers are supported on devices which only support > >> 5 fingers doesn't cause any problems for userspace in practice, since > >> at max 4 finger gestures are supported anyways. Drop the max_fingers > >> configuration and simply always assume 10 fingers. > > > > This does not fix a serious bug, should not be in stable. > > This patch is necessary for clean backporting of new DMI quirks added > to drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c, so IMHO it does make sense > as a stable series patch. That's likely not reason it ended up it autosel, but why not. "Stable-dep-of" tag would be nice in that case. Best regards, Pavel -- People of Russia, stop Putin before his war on Ukraine escalates.
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