Re: [PATCH] Revert "Input: clear BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads"

[Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:27 PM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker.
>
> On 21.03.22 19:44, José Expósito wrote:
> > This reverts commit 37ef4c19b4c659926ce65a7ac709ceaefb211c40.
> >
> > The touchpad present in the Dell Precision 7550 and 7750 laptops
> > reports a HID_DG_BUTTONTYPE of type MT_BUTTONTYPE_CLICKPAD. However,
> > the device is not a clickpad, it is a touchpad with physical buttons.
> >
> > In order to fix this issue, a quirk for the device was introduced in
> > libinput [1] [2] to disable the INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD property:
> >
> >       [Precision 7x50 Touchpad]
> >       MatchBus=i2c
> >       MatchUdevType=touchpad
> >       MatchDMIModalias=dmi:*svnDellInc.:pnPrecision7?50*
> >       AttrInputPropDisable=INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD
> >
> > However, because of the change introduced in 37ef4c19b4 ("Input: clear
> > BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads") the BTN_RIGHT key bit is not mapped
> > anymore breaking the device right click button and making impossible to
> > workaround it in user space.
> >
> > In order to avoid breakage on other present or future devices, revert
> > the patch causing the issue.
> >
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/481 [1]
> > Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868789  [2]
> > Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
> > [...]
>
> Jiri, Benjamin, what the status here? Sure, this is not a crucial
> regression and we are in the middle of the merge window, but it looks
> like nothing has happened for a week now. Or was progress made somewhere
> and I just missed it?

No, I think it just wasn't picked up by the input maintainer yet
(Dmitry, now in CC).

FWIW:
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>

José, please do not forget to add the input maintainer when you target
the input tree, not the HID one :)

Cheers,
Benjamin

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