On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:25:06PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:06:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Linus, any guidance here? Can we live with such regression? > > > > No. If people are already finding machines with problems, that means > > that there will be a lot of them once distributions move to that > > kernel. > > My only argument here is that failure is much less severe than with MUX > case: when in legacy mode the worst that is happening is that advanced > features (multi-touch, two-finger scroilling, etc) do not work so the > experience is similar to Windows box with no venrod drivers installed. > Whereas when active MUX does not work but we are tying to use it your > device is completely hosed.
So I slept on it and I decided that we should indeed revert the patch, since it causes more grief to people with good hardware than I expected. We should not punish owners of good hardware because some vendors can't write their firmware. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
