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

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 17 Feb 2014 00:17, "Peter Hutterer" <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 04:05:05PM -0800, Bart Massey wrote:
> > Perfectly reasonable. I quit using Keithp's laptop something over a
> > year ago,
>
> you know, you're not really making a good point here for the feature to be
> brought back :)
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter
>

Hi

I have a couple of Panasonic w7s that are still a long way from dying. And
the circular pad is one of the things making them highly viable and usable
PCs.

I still use them heavily and new batteries fans and waterproofing are on
the way.

Thanks

>
> > and since I'm on stock Debian I wasn't at top of tree then
> > either; otherwise I might have seen the reversion :-). Thanks much for
> > looking into this! Obviously no rush, but I can get out that laptop
> > and give it a try at some point if no one else does. --Bart
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Peter Hutterer
> > <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:09:05PM -0800, Bart Massey wrote:
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > I hadn't seen a single configuration file that set that option in
years, so
> > > tbh I had no idea whether this code was being used let alone whether
it was
> > > working. Generally, given the state of the rest of the driver, I
assume that
> > > anything that's not used is probably broken.
> > >
> > > And finding modern laptops with circular touchpads isn't that easy
either.
> > > Also, please note that the support was removed two years ago, with a
driver
> > > release almost a year ago now. So it did take quite a while for
anyone to
> > > even notice/complain.
> > >
> > > Aaaanyway, revert is on the list, as soon as I get a tested-by I can
push
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >    Peter
> > >
> > >>
> > >> 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
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