Re: [PATCH] Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> writes:
> 
> > +Synaptics re-detection problems:
> > +--------------------------------
> > +
> > +The synaptics X11 driver tries to re-open the touchpad input device file
> > +(/dev/input/eventX) each time you change from text mode back to X11. If the
> > +input device file does not exist at this precise moment, the synaptics driver
> > +will give up searching for a touchpad, permanently. You will need to restart
> > +X11 if you want to reissue a scan.
> 
> I think this particular problem is fixed by the following patch to the
> X driver:
> 
> --- synaptics.c.old	2005-07-10 00:09:02.000000000 +0200
> +++ synaptics.c	2005-07-10 00:09:12.000000000 +0200
> @@ -524,6 +524,11 @@
>  
>      local->fd = xf86OpenSerial(local->options);
>      if (local->fd == -1) {
> +	xf86ReplaceStrOption(local->options, "Device", "");
> +	SetDeviceAndProtocol(local);
> +	local->fd = xf86OpenSerial(local->options);
> +    }
> +    if (local->fd == -1) {
>  	xf86Msg(X_WARNING, "%s: cannot open input device\n", local->name);
>  	return !Success;
>      }
> 
> > +static int atp_calculate_abs(int *xy_sensors, int nb_sensors, int fact) {
> 
> I think this CodingStyle violation is quite annoying, because it
> prevents emacs from finding the beginning of the function. It should
> be written like this:
> 
> static int atp_calculate_abs(int *xy_sensors, int nb_sensors, int fact)
> {
 
Agreed, this should be fixed.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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