kernel/linux.git/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c, branch v3.6.6

Input: synaptics - adjust threshold for treating position values as negative

2012-10-07T15:39:35+00:00

commit 824efd37415961d38821ecbd9694e213fb2e8b32 upstream. Commit c039450 (Input: synaptics - handle out of bounds values from the hardware) caused any hardware reported values over 7167 to be treated as a wrapped-around negative value. It turns out that some firmware uses the value 8176 to indicate a finger near the edge of the touchpad whose actual position cannot be determined. This value now gets treated as negative, which can cause pointer jumps and broken edge scrolling on these machines. I only know of one touchpad which reports negative values, and this hardware never reports any value lower than -8 (i.e. 8184). Moving the threshold for treating a value as negative up to 8176 should work fine then for any hardware we currently know about, and since we're dealing with unspecified behavior it's probably the best we can do. The special 8176 value is also likely to result in sudden jumps in position, so let's also clamp this to the maximum specified value for the axis. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046512 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46371 Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz Tested-by: Alan Swanson Tested-by: Arteom Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Input: synaptics - handle out of bounds values from the hardware

2012-07-25T06:55:15+00:00

The touchpad on the Acer Aspire One D250 will report out of range values in the extreme lower portion of the touchpad. These appear as abrupt changes in the values reported by the hardware from very low values to very high values, which can cause unexpected vertical jumps in the position of the mouse pointer. What seems to be happening is that the value is wrapping to a two's compliment negative value of higher resolution than the 13-bit value reported by the hardware, with the high-order bits being truncated. This patch adds handling for these values by converting them to the appropriate negative values. The only tricky part about this is deciding when to treat a number as negative. It stands to reason that if out of range values can be reported on the low end then it could also happen on the high end, so not all out of range values should be treated as negative. The approach taken here is to split the difference between the maximum legitimate value for the axis and the maximum possible value that the hardware can report, treating values greater than this number as negative and all other values as positive. This can be tweaked later if hardware is found that operates outside of these parameters. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001251 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Input: synaptics - print firmware ID and board number at init

2012-07-08T01:20:08+00:00

Read the Firmware ID and Board Number from a synaptics device at init and display them in the system log. Device behavior is very board and firmware dependent. It may prove useful for users to include this information when providing bug reports or other feedback. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

2012-05-24T08:13:01+00:00

Input: synaptics - fix compile warning

2012-05-11T05:33:49+00:00

Move synaptics_invert_y() inside CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS to get rid of a compile warning when we don't select synaptics support. drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c:53:12: warning: ‘synaptics_invert_y’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Signed-off-by: JJ Ding Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Input: synaptics - fix regression with "image sensor" trackpads

2012-04-21T05:47:28+00:00

commit 7968a5dd492ccc38345013e534ad4c8d6eb60ed1 Input: synaptics - add support for Relative mode Accidentally broke support for advanced gestures (multitouch) on some trackpads such as the one in my ThinkPad X220 by incorretly changing the condition for enabling them. This restores it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: stable@kernel.org [3.3] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

2012-01-09T07:38:23+00:00

Input: synaptics - fix touchpad not working after S2R on Vostro V13

2011-12-12T08:06:56+00:00

Synaptics touchpads on several Dell laptops, particularly Vostro V13 systems, may not respond properly to PS/2 commands and queries immediately after resuming from suspend to RAM. This leads to unresponsive touchpad after suspend/resume cycle. Adding a 1-second delay after resetting the device allows touchpad to finish initializing (calibrating?) and start reacting properly. Reported-by: Daniel Manrique Tested-by: Daniel Manrique Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Input: synaptics - update OLPC XO exclusion

2011-11-15T17:46:29+00:00

We have determined that the jumpiness previously seen when using the synaptics kernel mouse driver on OLPC XO was due to not using the synaptics X11 userspace driver - the xf86-input-evdev driver was interpreting 'finger near pad' signals as movements. Newer versions of xf86-input-evdev fix this issue. Additionally, the synaptics kernel driver is now usable on this platform, but only when run in relative mode. Update the comment and refine the check to allow the synaptics driver to run on OLPC XO in relative mode. We will continue investigating the EC issue as time becomes available. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Input: synaptics - add support for Relative mode

2011-11-10T05:23:31+00:00

Currently, the synaptics driver puts the device into Absolute mode. As explained in the synaptics documentation section 3.2, in this mode, the device sends a continuous stream of packets at the maximum rate to the host when the user's fingers are near or on the pad or pressing buttons, and continues streaming for 1 second afterwards. These packets are even sent when there is no new information to report, even when they are duplicates of the previous packet. For embedded systems this is a bit much - it results in a huge and uninterrupted stream of interrupts at high rate. This patch adds support for Relative mode, which can be selected as a new psmouse protocol. In this mode, the device does not send duplicate packets and acts like a standard PS/2 mouse. However, synaptics-specific functionality is still available, such as the ability to set the packet rate, and rather than disabling gestures and taps at the hardware level unconditionally, a 'synaptics_disable_gesture' sysfs attribute has been added to allow control of this functionality. This solves a long standing OLPC issue: synaptics hardware enables tap to click by default (even in the default relative mode), but we have found this to be inappropriate for young children and first time computer users. Enabling the synaptics driver disables tap-to-click, but we have previously been unable to use this because it also enables Absolute mode, which is too "spammy" for our desires and actually overloads our EC with its continuous stream of packets. Now we can enable the synaptics driver, disabling tap to click while retaining the less noisy Relative mode. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov