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

[Bart Massey]

Daniel, thanks much for the explanation! I sympathize, I really do.
But it seems to me that retaining working code that folks are actually
using has to be a higher priority than simplification.  --Bart

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12 February 2014 16:26, Bart Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> It was removed to make the totally-nightmarish Synaptics driver
> slightly easier to reason about. Following the flow and fixing bugs
> inside that driver is near-on impossible, and anything that makes that
> easier is great by me.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> _______________________________________________
> xorg-devel at lists.x.org: X.Org development
> Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel
> Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel