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Alex Tu (alextu) wrote : Re: [Bug 1905600] Re: Support fingerprint identification in the driver of Synaptics fingerprint reader

Hi Shengyao,

Why you set state to in progress?

Did you find something regression ?

Shengyao Xue <email address hidden> 於 2021年1月25日 週一 下午3:50 寫道:

> ** Changed in: oem-priority
> Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: oem-priority
> Assignee: Bin Li (binli) => Shengyao Xue (xueshengyao)
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> Title:
> Support fingerprint identification in the driver of Synaptics
> fingerprint reader
>
> Status in OEM Priority Project:
> In Progress
> Status in libfprint package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in libfprint source package in Focal:
> Fix Committed
> Status in libfprint source package in Groovy:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
>
> On Ubuntu 20.04, with Synaptics fingerprint reader, users can use one
> fingerprint to login system, but if users add more fingerprints, they
> still can only one of those to login, other fingerprints do not work.
>
> To fix this issue, we need support fingerprint identification in the
> driver of Synaptics fingerprint reader, by backport this libfprint commit
> to Focal:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/commit/e27b65c9
>
> [Test Case]
>
> I tried backport the commit above to libfprint
> (1:1.90.2+tod1-0ubuntu1~20.04.2) in Focal and tested on 3
> ThinkPads(both use the 06cb:00bd Synaptics fingerprint reader), the
> multiple fingerprints works well.
>
> We have other OEM platforms with Synaptics fingerprint reader, we can
> use it to validate the changes if needed.
>
> [Regression Potential]
>
> the commit comes from Synaptics' engineer, just affects one file:
> libfprint/drivers/synaptics/synaptics.c, and only add identification
> support in that file, so the regression potential should be low.
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