From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>
To: Peter Berg Larsen <pebl@math.ku.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:44:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030613094435.B29859@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0306130134470.10788-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk>; from pebl@math.ku.dk on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:42:40AM +0200
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:42:40AM +0200, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > > > The synaptics driver, if it wished to demultiplex a true mouse protocol
> > > > behind the pad without an active multiplexing controller, could easily
> > > > create a new serio port, to which the psmouse driver would attach,
> > > > detect, and drive the mouse. It's a bit crazy, but it should work.
>
> > > hmm, that is clever. But I am afraid it will not work: the master (the
>
> > That's sad. Anyway, we'll have to find a solution for this. Either the
> > synaptics driver parsing the communication on the new serio port (which
> > isn't as complex as it looks) and detecting the packet length from that,
> > or some way the psmouse driver can tell it what packet size it uses.
>
> If the synaptic driver can deduce the protocol by listning to the probing
> communication, it might as well just sent it itself.
Not the protocol. Just the number of bytes per packet. That's quite a
different amount of understanding of the data passed through.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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2003-06-11 15:02 ` [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-11 18:16 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-11 18:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-11 18:29 ` AlberT
2003-06-11 18:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-11 21:23 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-12 2:48 ` Joseph Fannin
2003-06-12 2:54 ` CaT
2003-06-12 18:58 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-12 22:01 ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-06-12 22:57 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-12 23:17 ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-06-12 23:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-12 23:42 ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-06-13 7:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-06-13 8:58 ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-06-13 20:25 ` James Simmons
2003-06-13 20:38 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-13 20:51 ` James Simmons
2003-06-13 22:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-13 23:57 ` James Simmons
2003-06-14 8:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-16 21:28 ` James Simmons
2003-06-12 19:11 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-12 6:31 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-12 8:36 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-06-15 21:42 ` [PATCH] Synaptics Client/Passthrough (for Inspiron...) Arne Koewing
2003-06-13 21:15 ` [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 Peter Osterlund
2003-06-13 21:49 ` James Simmons
2003-06-13 22:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-13 22:55 ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-06-14 8:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-14 22:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-15 12:18 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-15 12:28 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-15 15:47 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-15 17:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-18 23:41 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-19 6:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-23 16:30 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-06-23 19:04 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-06-26 20:01 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-07 23:06 ` Peter Osterlund
2003-07-12 10:51 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-06-10 22:52 Joseph Fannin
2003-06-11 15:30 ` Joseph Fannin
2003-06-11 20:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-11 20:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-11 22:12 ` Peter Osterlund
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