[PATCH v2 synaptics] Revert "Support the new Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd trackpoint buttons"

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Mar 18 01:48:03 PDT 2015


Hi,

On 18-03-15 03:58, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 064445364b4775b25ba49c2250b22b169f291147.
>
> The Lenovo *50 series, including the X1 Carbon 3rd always require multiple
> kernel patches to enable the touchpad buttons. This patch in synaptics only
> addresses the re-routing of the top buttons.
>
> The final iteration of the kernel patches also route the trackpoint buttons
> through the trackpoint device, rendering this patch unnecessary. These patches
> are queued for 4.0.
>
> See kernel patch series up to commit cdd9dc195916ef5644cfac079094c3c1d1616e4c
> Author: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at redhat.com>
> Date:   Sun Mar 8 22:35:41 2015 -0700
>
>      Input: synaptics - re-route tracksticks buttons on the Lenovo 2015 series
>
> Currently in Dmitry's for-linus branch.
>
> Distributions running older kernels or the kernel stable series which has
> partial backports of the above patch series are encouraged to leave the
> 0644453 commit in and undo this revert.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> ---
> Just sending this out for the changed commit message. Some of the patches
> are en-route to the stable kernel, the full patcheset is scheduled for 4.0.
>
> Depending on distros' backports and the stable kernel there are some kernels
> out there that would need this patch in userspace. We've decided to not
> worry about that upstream though, distros will have to carry this patch
> until they update to 4.0.
>
> Hans - your chance to remove your rev-by if you disagree :)

Nope, my rev-by still stands.

Regards,

Hans


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