On Tuesday 11 June 2019 10:07:07 dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 09:23:33AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 June 2019 12:32:33 Hui Wang wrote:
> > > On 2019/6/11 上午11:23, Hui Wang wrote:
> > > > On 2019/6/11 上午11:05, Xiaoxiao Liu wrote:
> > > > > Hi Pali,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I discussed with our FW team about this problem.
> > > > > We think the V8 method means a touchpad feature  and does not fit
> > > > > the CS19 trackpoint device.
> > > > > CS19 TrackPoint needn't  use any Absolute (Raw) mode and is usually
> > > > > use standard mouse data.
> > > > > CS19 TrackPoint device is a completely different device with
> > > > > DualPoint device of Dell/HP.
> > > > > CS19 TrackPoint device is independent  of Touchpad. (Touchpad is
> > > > > connecting by I2C, TrackPoint is directly connecting with PS2 port.)
> > > > > And it has completely another FW.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So we think it is better to use the mouse mode for CS19 trackpoint.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe here is some mis-understanding,  the mouse mode here doesn't mean
> > > > we use psmouse-base.c for cs19 (bare ps/2 mouse), we plan to use
> > > > trackpoint.c to drive this HW, so this trackpoint has all features a
> > > > trackpoint should have.
> > > > 
> > > And I sent a patch one month ago to let the the trackpoint.c to drive this
> > > HW: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg61341.html, maybe that
> > > patch is reference.
> > 
> > So instead of creating blacklist, you should check for TP_VARIANT_ALPS
> > in alps.c and disallow its usage.
> > 
> > Or maybe better, move trackpoint.c detect code before alsp.c detect code
> > in psmouse-base. And no changes in alps.c are needed.
> 
> I'd be very cautions of moving around the protocol detection. It is very
> fragile, so if we can detect trackpoint-only case in alps.c and skip on
> to trackpoint I would prefer it.

The main problem is that proposed trackpoint-only check in alps.c is
basically what trackpoint.c is doing for checking if device is
trackpoint (via function trackpoint_start_protocol()).

So I'm not sure now what is the best solution...

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com