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 > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > On 12 February 2014 16:26, Bart Massey <[email protected]> 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 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > [email protected]: X.Org development > >> > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > >> > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > >> _______________________________________________ > >> [email protected]: X.Org development > >> Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > >> Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > >> _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
