Comment 19 for bug 1265885

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Kent Baxley (kentb) wrote : Re: regression with respect touchpad

Here's an update from Synaptics as to what's going on. Work is progressing upstream, but, it's rather slow at the moment:

We are making progress upstreaming the driver, but it is going slowly.
Dmitry Torokhov has created a branch for our driver in his git tree
and we are submitting incremental patches to get the core of our
driver in place.

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
-b synaptics-rmi4

Because our driver is intended to support all of our RMI4 devices
there are several pieces to the driver which make it a bit more
complicated then the standard input driver. So far we have submitted
the rmi4 core and drivers for function 11 (pointing) and function 30
(the click button). Function 30 hasn't been accepted yet.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg29961.html

We also submitted transport driver for I2C devices which do not have
HID support. What is submitted right now works for touchscreens, but
we still need to submit some additional patches to get touchpad
support working correctly. Once those patches are submitted we will
the submit the HID transport driver. I'm not quite sure when
everything will be finally accepted by Dmitry, but it depends on how
quickly things get reviewed and accepted. If people at Canonical can
review our patches, that would help too.