Would anybody mind the "Drop circular pad support" patch being reverted?

[Bart Massey]

Please revert. Keithp has a laptop like this that I've used for a
while: works great. I don't understand why this patch was committed?
--Bart

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Sam Hughes <sam.reid.hughes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Specifically, this patch:
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-May/030892.html
>
> Such laptops still exist -- for now, some "business rugged" Toughbooks, also
> sold under the Let's Note name in Japan, still sport circular track pads.
> The CF-SX3 is the latest model with a circular track pad, released in
> September 2013.
>
> The CircularPad option makes scrolling work as it's supposed to on such
> devices -- moving your finger around the boundary of the device allows
> uninterrupted scrolling.  Without this feature, you can enable circular
> scrolling, but you have to start your finger at almost exactly 3 o'clock or
> 12 o'clock, some cardinal direction, which is too annoying.  The feature
> worked perfectly before and works with the patch reverted.
>
> - Sam
>
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