Re: [PATCH 2/7 v3] HID: magicmouse: simplify multitouch featurerequest

From: Chase Douglas
Date: Wed Sep 01 2010 - 09:51:05 EST


On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 15:14 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On 09/01/2010 02:34 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 09:43 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> >> On 09/01/2010 03:56 AM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Only the first feature request is required to put the Magic Mouse into
> >>> multitouch mode. This is also the case for the Magic Trackpad, for which
> >>> support will be added in a later commit.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Acked-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>
> >>
> >> Since this is starting to look awfully similar to the mode switch found in
> >> appletouch and bcm5974, I wonder what happens to the stream from the device when
> >> the connection to hid is closed. It could be that the mode switch should be
> >> moved to open/close instead.
> >
> > I don't really understand what you are proposing. It sounds like maybe
> > you want the device to continue to function in a non-multitouch way
> > after hid disconnection, but the device needs hid to function at all.
>
>
> Suspend/resume, broken bt connections, etc. There was an issue with the bcm5974
> macbook trackpads not functioning properly after a close unless returned to
> normal mode. The mode switch code was moved to the open/close functions for that
> reason.

I'm not sure how applicable this is to a bluetooth device though. On
suspend, the device is disconnected. On resume, the device should
reconnect through the hid layer again.

> > The closest thing I can think to what you are saying is to do whatever
> > it takes on module removal so that it goes back to functioning in the
> > non-multitouch mode. That may be possible.
>
>
> Sounds like a good start. Doing a suspend test just now I could not get the
> device up again, for whatever reason.

I'm having some sporadic issues too, but when I hit issues and I use
ftrace I see that the hid layer isn't doing everything it should. I'm
not sure how much is the fault of hid vs the driver.

-- Chase

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