[PATCH synaptics 00/10] Purging features

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed May 9 09:37:02 PDT 2012


On 05/08/2012 10:34 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> Well, "features" is probably pushing the term. More like bugs in disguise
> since several of those haven't been tested for multiple releases. The driver
> has become mostly unmaintainable, so a few features are shown the door.
> I'm sure things like trackstick emulation mode will be thouroughly missed,
> but I've heard Linux is all about choice and I choose not to maintain this
> any longer.
> 
> This patchset requires the indentation patches I posted earlier.
> More features may take the trip to the chopping block in the future, no
> guarantees for now.

I don't have the bandwidth to actually review the code changes. However,
I agree in principle with them all, except patch 9.

I have a feeling the biggest issue will be edge support. Before we had
clickpad support, people relied on it to be able to click and drag
beyond the edge of the touchpad. There may be people who are now used to
using it. Obviously we have a better way of doing things now, though.

Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>


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