On Monday 02 February 2015 06:34:08 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:26:50AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2015 23:55:53 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On some Dell Latitudes we fail to identify presence of
> > > trackstick unless we reset the device. The issue is quite
> > > benign as we do perform reset in alps_init(), so the
> > > trackstick ends up working, but mouse name reported to
> > > userspace is not accurate.
> > > 
> > > In order to fix the issue while avoiding the additional
> > > lengthy reset we move the resrt to alps_detect() and keep
> > > the discovered state to be used later in alps_init().
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com>
> > 
> > This patch is not enough. ALPS_DUALPOINT flag can be removed
> > also in function alps_hw_init_rushmore_v3() which is called
> > from alps_init() but not from alps_detect(). So this patch
> > does not have to set correct name in alps_detect() based on
> > ALPS_DUALPOINT flag. My original patch set name in
> > alps_init() after hw_init() which handled also this
> > problem...
> 
> Hmm, I think if we are still seeing these after somewhat
> recent addition of full reset in detect procedure we need to
> fix our detection instead of tweaking capabilities after
> initialization phase fails. So I will just remove that bit
> from alps_hw_init_rushmore_v3(). FWIW I did a quick search on
> Google and do not seem to find dmesgs with message
> "trackstick E7 report failed".
> 
> Thanks.

Ok, in this case kernel just register redundant input device 
which does not send any events to userspace.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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