Re: [PATCH 5/7] Input: psmouse - add support for 2nd wheel on A4Tech Dual-Scroll wheel mice

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Michel,

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:02:50AM +0100, Michel Hermier wrote:
> Hi,
> I think this expose a little problem in the driver: The lack of a
> feature/quirk flags in the struct psmouse_protocol, to replace the 4 bools.
> Maybe I'm mistaken but this driver is legacy, so I doubt your patch would
> be accepted, or a more proper refactoring.
> My 2 cents as a powerless reviewer.

Flags are more compact, separate module parameters are more user
friendly. If we see a need for more quirks yet we may revisit the
situation and add flags.

As far as the dirver being legacy - yes, this is somewhat true, we are
slowly abandoning PS/2 in favor of I2C (and HID). Most of the PS/2
support goes into advanced protocols like ALPS and trackpoint, not basic
PS/2 handling.

> Cheers
> 
> Le 20 janv. 2018 12:09 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> 
> > From: Stephen Lyons <slysven@virginmedia.com>
> >
> > This Far-Eastern company's PS/2 mice use a deviant format for the data
> > relating to movement of the scroll wheels for, at least, their dual wheel
> > mice, such as their "Optical GreatEye Wheelmouse" model "WOP-35".  This
> > product has five "buttons" (one of which is the click action on the first
> > wheel) and TWO scroll wheels.  However for a byte comprising d0-d7 instead
> > of setting one of d6-7 in the forth byte of the mouse data packet and a
> > twos complement number of scroll steps in the remaining d5-d0 (or d3-d0
> > should there be a fourth (BTN_SIDE - d4) or fifth (BTN_EXTRA - d5) button
> > to report; they only report a single +/- event for each wheel and use a bit
> > pattern that corresponds to +/-1 for the first wheel and +/- 2 for the
> > second in the lower nibble of the fourth byte.
> >
> > The effect with existing code is that the second mouse wheel merely repeats
> > the effect of the first but providing two steps per click rather than the
> > one of the first wheel - so there is no HORIZONTAL scroll wheel movement
> > detected from the device as far as the rest of the kernel sees it.
> >
> > This patch, if enabled by the "a4tech_workaround" module parameter modifies
> > the handling just for mice of type PSMOUSE_IMEX so that the second scroll
> > wheel movement gets correctly reported as REL_HWHEEL events.  Should this
> > module parameter be activated for other mice of the same PSMOUSE_IMEX type
> > then it is possible that at the point where the mouse reports more than a
> > single movement step the user may start seeing horizontal rather than
> > vertical wheel events, but should the movement steps get to be more than
> > two at a time the hack will get immediately deactivated and the behaviour
> > will revert to the past code.
> >
> > This was discussed around *fifteen* *years* *ago* on the LKML and the best
> > summary is in post https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/7/18/111 "Re: PS2 Input Core
> > Support" by Vojtech Pavlik. I was not able to locate any discussion later
> > than this on this topic.
> >
> > Given that most users of the "psmouse" module will NOT want this additional
> > feature enabled I have taken the apparently erroneous step of defaulting
> > the module parameter that enables it to be "disabled" - this functionality
> > may interfere with the operation of "normal" mice of this type (until a
> > large enough scroll wheel movement is detected) so I cannot see how it
> > would want to be enabled for "normal" users - i.e.  everyone without this
> > brand of mouse.
> >
> > I am using this patch at the moment and I can confirm that it is working
> > for me as both a module and compiled into the kernel for my mouse that is
> > of the type (WOP-35) described - I note that it is still available from
> > certain on-line retailers and that the manufacturers site does not list
> > GNU/Linux as being supported on the product page - this patch however does
> > enable full use of this product:
> > http://www.a4tech.com/product.asp?cid=3D1&scid=3D8&id=3D22
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Lyons <slysven@virginmedia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
> > b/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
> > index cbca668bb931f..d0e45124e7f43 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
> > @@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ static bool psmouse_smartscroll = true;
> >  module_param_named(smartscroll, psmouse_smartscroll, bool, 0644);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(smartscroll, "Logitech Smartscroll autorepeat, 1 =
> > enabled (default), 0 = disabled.");
> >
> > +static bool psmouse_a4tech_2wheels;
> > +module_param_named(a4tech_workaround, psmouse_a4tech_2wheels, bool,
> > 0644);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(a4tech_workaround, "A4Tech second scroll wheel
> > workaround, 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled (default).");
> > +
> >  static unsigned int psmouse_resetafter = 5;
> >  module_param_named(resetafter, psmouse_resetafter, uint, 0644);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(resetafter, "Reset device after so many bad packets (0 =
> > never).");
> > @@ -150,6 +154,7 @@ psmouse_ret_t psmouse_process_byte(struct psmouse
> > *psmouse)
> >  {
> >         struct input_dev *dev = psmouse->dev;
> >         u8 *packet = psmouse->packet;
> > +       int wheel;
> >
> >         if (psmouse->pktcnt < psmouse->pktsize)
> >                 return PSMOUSE_GOOD_DATA;
> > @@ -175,8 +180,18 @@ psmouse_ret_t psmouse_process_byte(struct psmouse
> > *psmouse)
> >                         break;
> >                 case 0x00:
> >                 case 0xC0:
> > -                       input_report_rel(dev, REL_WHEEL,
> > -                                        -sign_extend32(packet[3], 3));
> > +                       wheel = sign_extend32(packet[3], 3);
> > +
> > +                       /*
> > +                        * Some A4Tech mice have two scroll wheels, with
> > first
> > +                        * one reporting +/-1 in the lower nibble, and
> > second
> > +                        * one reporting +/-2.
> > +                        */
> > +                       if (psmouse_a4tech_2wheels && abs(wheel) > 1)
> > +                               input_report_rel(dev, REL_HWHEEL, wheel /
> > 2);
> > +                       else
> > +                               input_report_rel(dev, REL_WHEEL, -wheel);
> > +
> >                         input_report_key(dev, BTN_SIDE,  BIT(4));
> >                         input_report_key(dev, BTN_EXTRA, BIT(5));
> >                         break;
> > --
> > 2.16.0.rc1.238.g530d649a79-goog
> >
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Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry