[PATCH synaptics 0/15] Predictable motion, better accel & smooth-scrolling

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Jun 13 22:46:52 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:09:04PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> The attached patchset is the first part of the touchpad work we did for
> ChromiumOS, which is applicable to all Synaptics touchpads.  The main
> thrust of this patchset is to make motion as predictable as possible: we
> use hardware time, rather than the time we received the event in the
> SIGIO handler, to estimate motion; we added a better acceleration
> function; we added some strict filters to get rid of erroneous motion
> and make palm detection more reliable, and lastly, we also added smooth
> scrolling support (of course).
> 
> The second part is rather more invasive, and I'll follow up with it
> later.
> 
> I've been using this on my MacBook Air for daily usage for a couple of
> months now, and it seems fine to me.
> 
> This tree is available at
> git://git.freedesktop.org/~daniels/xf86-input-synaptics:master.  Please
> review and/or merge. :)

Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> for
2, 3, 5, 10, 11. I replied to the other patches separately.

Cheers,
  Peter


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