Re: Proposal for synaptics driver

From: Chase Douglas
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 15:27:11 EST


On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 19:58 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 06:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> [...]
>
> > The rest of the
> > touchpad is stationary and does not click. If no one has a better name
> > for these touchpads, I'll refer to them as "integrated buttons"
> > touchpads.
>
>
> The name "integrated button" is the term in use for the later Macbook models,
> where there is a button that clicks anywhere on the pad.

Ok, that sounds like the Synaptics ClickPad. An unfortunate name
clash :). How about "embedded buttons" touchpads?

> [...]
>
> > Now the bit about integrated button touchpad detection. First, I would
> > be interested in learning if anyone can disprove bit 0x200000 of the 0c
> > extended caps flags means integrated buttons.
>
>
> I think the easiest way to learn this is to produce a dkms package for people to
> test.

Good idea, I'll make a dkms package when I've got some patches to test.

Thanks,

-- Chase

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