Cypress trackpad: Occasional taps leak through as clicks even with tap-to-click disabled.

[Kyle Fazzari]

I am a Sputnik beta participant, and have the high-end XPS 13.

With tap-to-click disabled, occasionally a tap (not hard enough to depress the clickpad) still gets turned into a click.

Note that this does not happen constantly, but to reproduce, run this:

$ xev | grep Button

Place your mouse cursor over the xev window, and begin tapping the trackpad (again, not hard enough to cause a hardware click). The only place I can get it to occur is on the bottom edge or the bottom corners of the trackpad. Unfortunately this happens to be where my thumb sits most of the time, which means this issue bites me.

[Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)]

I have attached a patch that fixes this problem by making sure that the "tap" bit in the header is handled even if the trackpad reports the number of fingers in contact to be zero.

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

For reference, I can reproduce the bug reasonably easily, by rapidly soft-tapping between two fingers, on the bottom edge of the pad.

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

Kyle, I confirm that your patch fixes the problem -- I can no longer get any stray clicks at all after applying it. Thanks very much for your work!

The patch has been applied to the Sputnik PPA kernel (versions labelled +kamal11 or higher):

  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-kernel

I'll contact you to arrange for the patch to be applied to Ubuntu Quantal and Precise also.

[Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)]

Thanks for the quick turnaround Kamal!

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[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel for Quantal in -proposed solves the problem (3.5.0-18.29). Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-quantal' to 'verification-done-quantal'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

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[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

Verified fixed in quantal 3.5.0-18.29.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-18.29

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linux (3.5.0-18.29) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1068224

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [packaging] do not fail secure copy on older kernels
  * SAUCE: efivarfs: efivarfs_file_read ensure we free data in error paths
    - LP: #1063061
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    on error
    - LP: #1063061
  * SAUCE: efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() fix inode reference counts
    - LP: #1063061
  * SAUCE: efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we free our temporary
    name
    - LP: #1063061
  * SAUCE: efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we clean up correctly on
    error
    - LP: #1063061
  * [Config] add fs/udf to linux-image to support DVD/CD formats in virtual
    instances
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  [ Jeremy Kerr ]

  * SAUCE: efi: Handle deletions and size changes in efivarfs_write_file
    - LP: #1063061
  * SAUCE: efivarfs: Implement exclusive access for {get, set}_variable
    - LP: #1063061

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad list additional contributors

  [ Kyle Fazzari ]

  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad fix lost sync upon palm contact
    - LP: #1048258
  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad fix taps turning into hardware
    clicks
    - LP: #1064086

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: ext4: fix crash when accessing /proc/mounts
    concurrently"
    - LP: #1066176
  * Revert "SAUCE: ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix detection of ALC271X codec"
    - LP: #1066176

  [ Lee, Chun-Yi ]

  * SAUCE: efi: add efivars kobject to efi sysfs folder
    - LP: #1063061

  [ Matt Fleming ]

  * SAUCE: efivarfs: Add documentation for the EFI variable filesystem
    - LP: #1063061

  [ Matthew Garrett ]

  * SAUCE: efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
    - LP: #1063061

  [ Sarveshwar Bandi ]

  * SAUCE: bridge: Pull ip header into skb->data before looking into ip
    header.
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  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "drm/i915: correctly order the ring init sequence"
    - LP: #1066176
  * vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal
    - LP: #1063761
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[Herton R. Krzesinski (herton)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel (3.2.0-34.53) in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-precise' to 'verification-done-precise'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

Verified fixed in precise (3.2.0-34.53).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-34.53

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linux (3.2.0-34.53) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1078760

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad list additional contributors

  [ Kyle Fazzari ]

  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad fix multi-source, double-click
    - LP: #1055788
  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad fix lost sync upon palm contact
    - LP: #1048258
  * SAUCE: input: Cypress PS/2 Trackpad fix taps turning into hardware
    clicks
    - LP: #1064086

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] remove ndiswrapper from Provides:
    - LP: #1076395
  * [Config] CONFIG_HP_WATCHDOG=m for x86en
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    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
  * drm/i915: prevent possible pin leak on error path
    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
  * TTY: ttyprintk, don't touch behind tty->write_buf
    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
  * n_gsm.c: Implement 3GPP27.010 DLC start-up procedure in MUX
    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
  * firmware: Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute print out
    from sysfs
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    - LP: #1068162
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  * gspca_pac7302: Add usb-id for 145f:013c
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  * gspca_pac7302: add support for device 1ae7:2001 Speedlink Snappy
    Microphone SL-6825-SBK
    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
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    - LP: #1068162
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  * powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event
  ...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Kyle Fazzari / Kamal Mostafa, I just wanted to ping you about if the patch would be submitted upstream to the linux-input mailing list for upstream inclusion, or you could advise on upstream discussion of this?