HID: multitouch: Support ALPS PTP Stick and Touchpad devices
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HWE Next |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Shrirang Bagul | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Support to ALPS PTP Stick and Touchpad devices found on latest Dell Latitude systems.
[Fix]
This fix in two parts:
1. Requires cherry-pick of patch submitted by ALPS in upstream kernel 4.13
See: https:/
2. Additional sauce patch adds the device-id of the new PTP stick. This
patch is already submitted to linux-input and is pending review.
See: http://
[Test Case]
Verified on the systems affected with this issue and confirmed that this solution works.
[Regression Potential]
The patch adds new device ids to hid multi-touch driver. With strict conditional filtering based on these device-ids, regression potential is minimal.
This bug is used for tracking purposes, please do not triage.
CVE References
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: originate-from-1706273 somerville |
Changed in hwe-next: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
description: | updated |
Changed in hwe-next: | |
assignee: | nobody → Shrirang Bagul (shrirang-bagul) |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in hwe-next: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in hwe-next: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel 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- zesty' to 'verification- done-zesty' . If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification- needed- zesty' to 'verification- failed- zesty'.
If verification is not done by 5 working days 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!