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<title>linux.git/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c, branch v4.17</title>
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<title>Merge branch 'psmouse' into next</title>
<updated>2018-03-17T17:58:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2018-03-17T17:58:05+00:00</published>
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Merge various PS/2 handling improvements.
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Merge various PS/2 handling improvements.
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<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - move sliced command implementation to libps2</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T00:50:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T20:03:02+00:00</published>
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In preparation to adding some debugging statements to PS/2 control
sequences let's move psmouse_sliced_command() into libps2 and rename it
to ps2_sliced_command().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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In preparation to adding some debugging statements to PS/2 control
sequences let's move psmouse_sliced_command() into libps2 and rename it
to ps2_sliced_command().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - add support for 2nd wheel on A4Tech Dual-Scroll wheel mice</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T00:49:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Lyons</name>
<email>slysven@virginmedia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T06:20:54+00:00</published>
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This Far-Eastern company's PS/2 mice use a deviant format for the data
relating to movement of the scroll wheels for, at least, their dual wheel
mice, such as their "Optical GreatEye Wheelmouse" model "WOP-35".  This
product has five "buttons" (one of which is the click action on the first
wheel) and TWO scroll wheels.  However for a byte comprising d0-d7 instead
of setting one of d6-7 in the forth byte of the mouse data packet and a
twos complement number of scroll steps in the remaining d5-d0 (or d3-d0
should there be a fourth (BTN_SIDE - d4) or fifth (BTN_EXTRA - d5) button
to report; they only report a single +/- event for each wheel and use a bit
pattern that corresponds to +/-1 for the first wheel and +/- 2 for the
second in the lower nibble of the fourth byte.

The effect with existing code is that the second mouse wheel merely repeats
the effect of the first but providing two steps per click rather than the
one of the first wheel - so there is no HORIZONTAL scroll wheel movement
detected from the device as far as the rest of the kernel sees it.

This patch, if enabled by the "a4tech_workaround" module parameter modifies
the handling just for mice of type PSMOUSE_IMEX so that the second scroll
wheel movement gets correctly reported as REL_HWHEEL events.  Should this
module parameter be activated for other mice of the same PSMOUSE_IMEX type
then it is possible that at the point where the mouse reports more than a
single movement step the user may start seeing horizontal rather than
vertical wheel events, but should the movement steps get to be more than
two at a time the hack will get immediately deactivated and the behaviour
will revert to the past code.

This was discussed around *fifteen* *years* *ago* on the LKML and the best
summary is in post https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/7/18/111 "Re: PS2 Input Core
Support" by Vojtech Pavlik. I was not able to locate any discussion later
than this on this topic.

Given that most users of the "psmouse" module will NOT want this additional
feature enabled I have taken the apparently erroneous step of defaulting
the module parameter that enables it to be "disabled" - this functionality
may interfere with the operation of "normal" mice of this type (until a
large enough scroll wheel movement is detected) so I cannot see how it
would want to be enabled for "normal" users - i.e.  everyone without this
brand of mouse.

I am using this patch at the moment and I can confirm that it is working
for me as both a module and compiled into the kernel for my mouse that is
of the type (WOP-35) described - I note that it is still available from
certain on-line retailers and that the manufacturers site does not list
GNU/Linux as being supported on the product page - this patch however does
enable full use of this product:
http://www.a4tech.com/product.asp?cid=3D1&amp;scid=3D8&amp;id=3D22

Signed-off-by: Stephen Lyons &lt;slysven@virginmedia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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This Far-Eastern company's PS/2 mice use a deviant format for the data
relating to movement of the scroll wheels for, at least, their dual wheel
mice, such as their "Optical GreatEye Wheelmouse" model "WOP-35".  This
product has five "buttons" (one of which is the click action on the first
wheel) and TWO scroll wheels.  However for a byte comprising d0-d7 instead
of setting one of d6-7 in the forth byte of the mouse data packet and a
twos complement number of scroll steps in the remaining d5-d0 (or d3-d0
should there be a fourth (BTN_SIDE - d4) or fifth (BTN_EXTRA - d5) button
to report; they only report a single +/- event for each wheel and use a bit
pattern that corresponds to +/-1 for the first wheel and +/- 2 for the
second in the lower nibble of the fourth byte.

The effect with existing code is that the second mouse wheel merely repeats
the effect of the first but providing two steps per click rather than the
one of the first wheel - so there is no HORIZONTAL scroll wheel movement
detected from the device as far as the rest of the kernel sees it.

This patch, if enabled by the "a4tech_workaround" module parameter modifies
the handling just for mice of type PSMOUSE_IMEX so that the second scroll
wheel movement gets correctly reported as REL_HWHEEL events.  Should this
module parameter be activated for other mice of the same PSMOUSE_IMEX type
then it is possible that at the point where the mouse reports more than a
single movement step the user may start seeing horizontal rather than
vertical wheel events, but should the movement steps get to be more than
two at a time the hack will get immediately deactivated and the behaviour
will revert to the past code.

This was discussed around *fifteen* *years* *ago* on the LKML and the best
summary is in post https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/7/18/111 "Re: PS2 Input Core
Support" by Vojtech Pavlik. I was not able to locate any discussion later
than this on this topic.

Given that most users of the "psmouse" module will NOT want this additional
feature enabled I have taken the apparently erroneous step of defaulting
the module parameter that enables it to be "disabled" - this functionality
may interfere with the operation of "normal" mice of this type (until a
large enough scroll wheel movement is detected) so I cannot see how it
would want to be enabled for "normal" users - i.e.  everyone without this
brand of mouse.

I am using this patch at the moment and I can confirm that it is working
for me as both a module and compiled into the kernel for my mouse that is
of the type (WOP-35) described - I note that it is still available from
certain on-line retailers and that the manufacturers site does not list
GNU/Linux as being supported on the product page - this patch however does
enable full use of this product:
http://www.a4tech.com/product.asp?cid=3D1&amp;scid=3D8&amp;id=3D22

Signed-off-by: Stephen Lyons &lt;slysven@virginmedia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - clean up code</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T00:48:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-22T23:28:48+00:00</published>
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- switch to using BIT() macros
- use u8 instead of unsigned char for byte data
- use input_set_capability() instead of manipulating capabilities bits
  directly
- use sign_extend32() when extracting wheel data.
- do not abuse -1 as error code, propagate errors from various calls.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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- switch to using BIT() macros
- use u8 instead of unsigned char for byte data
- use input_set_capability() instead of manipulating capabilities bits
  directly
- use sign_extend32() when extracting wheel data.
- do not abuse -1 as error code, propagate errors from various calls.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - create helper for reporting standard buttons/motion</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T00:48:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T01:07:44+00:00</published>
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Many protocol driver re-implement code to parse buttons or motion data from
the standard PS/2 protocol. Let's split the parsing into separate
functions and reuse them in protocol drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Many protocol driver re-implement code to parse buttons or motion data from
the standard PS/2 protocol. Let's split the parsing into separate
functions and reuse them in protocol drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - fix Synaptics detection when protocol is disabled</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T21:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T21:44:46+00:00</published>
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When Synaptics protocol is disabled, we still need to try and detect the
hardware, so we can switch to SMBus device if SMbus is detected, or we know
that it is Synaptics device and reset it properly for the bare PS/2
protocol.

Fixes: c378b5119eb0 ("Input: psmouse - factor out common protocol probing code")
Reported-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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When Synaptics protocol is disabled, we still need to try and detect the
hardware, so we can switch to SMBus device if SMbus is detected, or we know
that it is Synaptics device and reset it properly for the bare PS/2
protocol.

Fixes: c378b5119eb0 ("Input: psmouse - factor out common protocol probing code")
Reported-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - constify attribute_group structures</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T21:19:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Yadav</name>
<email>arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T03:22:54+00:00</published>
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attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_groups provided by &lt;linux/sysfs.h&gt; work with const
attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.

File size before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  12850	    740	     12	  13602	   3522	drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.o

File size After adding 'const':
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  12914	    676	     12	  13602	   3522	drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.o

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav &lt;arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_groups provided by &lt;linux/sysfs.h&gt; work with const
attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.

File size before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  12850	    740	     12	  13602	   3522	drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.o

File size After adding 'const':
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  12914	    676	     12	  13602	   3522	drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.o

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav &lt;arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: synaptics - add support for Intertouch devices</title>
<updated>2017-03-25T17:37:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Tissoires</name>
<email>benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T22:13:53+00:00</published>
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Most of the Synaptics devices are connected through PS/2 and a different
bus (SMBus or HID over I2C). The secondary bus capability is indicated by
the InterTouch bit in extended capability 0x0C.

We only enable the InterTouch device to be created for the laptops
registered with the top software button property or those we know that are
functional. In the future, we might change the default to always rely on
the InterTouch bus. Currently, users can enable/disable the feature with
the psmouse parameter synaptics_intertouch.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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Most of the Synaptics devices are connected through PS/2 and a different
bus (SMBus or HID over I2C). The secondary bus capability is indicated by
the InterTouch bit in extended capability 0x0C.

We only enable the InterTouch device to be created for the laptops
registered with the top software button property or those we know that are
functional. In the future, we might change the default to always rely on
the InterTouch bus. Currently, users can enable/disable the feature with
the psmouse parameter synaptics_intertouch.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - add support for SMBus companions</title>
<updated>2017-03-25T17:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Tissoires</name>
<email>benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T18:48:23+00:00</published>
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This provides glue between PS/2 devices that enumerate the RMI4 devices
and Elan touchpads to the RMI4 (or Elan) SMBus driver.

The SMBus devices keep their PS/2 connection alive. If the initialization
process goes too far (psmouse_activate called), the device disconnects
from the I2C bus and stays on the PS/2 bus, that is why we explicitly
disable PS/2 device reporting (by calling psmouse_deactivate) before
trying to register SMBus companion device.

The HID over I2C devices are enumerated through the ACPI DSDT, and
their PS/2 device also exports the InterTouch bit in the extended
capability 0x0C. However, the firmware keeps its I2C connection open
even after going further in the PS/2 initialization. We don't need
to take extra precautions with those device, especially because they
block their PS/2 communication when HID over I2C is used.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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This provides glue between PS/2 devices that enumerate the RMI4 devices
and Elan touchpads to the RMI4 (or Elan) SMBus driver.

The SMBus devices keep their PS/2 connection alive. If the initialization
process goes too far (psmouse_activate called), the device disconnects
from the I2C bus and stays on the PS/2 bus, that is why we explicitly
disable PS/2 device reporting (by calling psmouse_deactivate) before
trying to register SMBus companion device.

The HID over I2C devices are enumerated through the ACPI DSDT, and
their PS/2 device also exports the InterTouch bit in the extended
capability 0x0C. However, the firmware keeps its I2C connection open
even after going further in the PS/2 initialization. We don't need
to take extra precautions with those device, especially because they
block their PS/2 communication when HID over I2C is used.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: psmouse - introduce notion of SMBus companions</title>
<updated>2017-03-25T17:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T23:50:56+00:00</published>
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Prepare PS/2 mouse drivers to work with devices that are accessible both
via PS/2 and SMBus, which provides higher bandwidth, and thus suits better
for modern multi-touch devices.

We expect that SMBus drivers will take control over the device, so when
we detect SMBus "protocol" we forego registering input device, or enabling
PS/2 device reports (as it usually makes device unresponsive to access over
SMBus).

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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Prepare PS/2 mouse drivers to work with devices that are accessible both
via PS/2 and SMBus, which provides higher bandwidth, and thus suits better
for modern multi-touch devices.

We expect that SMBus drivers will take control over the device, so when
we detect SMBus "protocol" we forego registering input device, or enabling
PS/2 device reports (as it usually makes device unresponsive to access over
SMBus).

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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