Comment 16 for bug 1272765

There was some movement on this issue in the past week, as Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted some patches for the kernel that fix this bug:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/33971

One argument for making this higher priority than Wishlist is that digital game distribution service Steam recommends Ubuntu to its 75 million (4-6.5 million concurrent) users:

http://store.steampowered.com/about

which is to say, there will be increasing amounts of attention on this bug as Valve's Linux push gains traction.