Re: [PATCH] Input - synaptics: fix resolution for manually provided min/max

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sun Jun 08 2014 - 01:41:10 EST


On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 01:59:35PM -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> commit 421e08c41fda fixed the reported min/max for the X and Y axis,
> but unfortunately, it broke the resolution of those same axis.
>
> On the t540p, the resolution is the same regarding X and Y. It is not
> a problem for xf86-input-synaptics because this driver is only interested
> in the ratio between X and Y.
> Unfortunately, xf86-input-cmt uses directly the resolution, and having a
> null resolution leads to some divide by 0 errors, which are translated by
> -infinity in the resulting coordinates.
>
> Reported-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> in the original submission, the test for the quirk was at the end of the
> synaptics_resolution() function. However, there was a mixmatch with the config
> in this original submission and you had to change the patch slightly.
> Unfortunately, this change created this bug which was hard to notice, which is
> why it comes that late in the cycle (and also because we are trying to find out
> if xf86-input-cmt could replace xf86-input-synaptics).

Hmm, I guess we are not going to quirk very old hardware so the change
is fine, applied.

>
> Anyway, as mentioned in the commit message, this will not harm a big majority
> of users, because only those using ChromeOS will be impacted (not sure they
> have the Lenovo 40 series in their kernel either).
>
> Again, it's your call to leave or not the stable@ tag, but given that all we
> put regarding those crappy devices are tagged as such, I put it there also.
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
> drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
> index c5ec703..9cff1f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
> @@ -347,15 +347,6 @@ static int synaptics_resolution(struct psmouse *psmouse)
> unsigned char resp[3];
> int i;
>
> - for (i = 0; min_max_pnpid_table[i].pnp_ids; i++)
> - if (matches_pnp_id(psmouse, min_max_pnpid_table[i].pnp_ids)) {
> - priv->x_min = min_max_pnpid_table[i].x_min;
> - priv->x_max = min_max_pnpid_table[i].x_max;
> - priv->y_min = min_max_pnpid_table[i].y_min;
> - priv->y_max = min_max_pnpid_table[i].y_max;
> - return 0;
> - }
> -
> if (SYN_ID_MAJOR(priv->identity) < 4)
> return 0;
>
> @@ -366,6 +357,15 @@ static int synaptics_resolution(struct psmouse *psmouse)
> }
> }
>
> + for (i = 0; min_max_pnpid_table[i].pnp_ids; i++)
> + if (matches_pnp_id(psmouse, min_max_pnpid_table[i].pnp_ids)) {
> + priv->x_min = min_max_pnpid_table[i].x_min;
> + priv->x_max = min_max_pnpid_table[i].x_max;
> + priv->y_min = min_max_pnpid_table[i].y_min;
> + priv->y_max = min_max_pnpid_table[i].y_max;
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> if (SYN_EXT_CAP_REQUESTS(priv->capabilities) >= 5 &&
> SYN_CAP_MAX_DIMENSIONS(priv->ext_cap_0c)) {
> if (synaptics_send_cmd(psmouse, SYN_QUE_EXT_MAX_COORDS, resp)) {
> --
> 1.9.0
>

--
Dmitry
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