Re: [REGRESSION] Re: ELAN1206 Touchpad Bugzilla 219799

[Aditya Garg]

On 02-06-2025 11:35 pm, Aditya Garg wrote:
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> On 28-05-2025 07:44 pm, agski33 wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I am currently experiencing the issue that was previously reported in the following BugZilla entry: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799. ; I noticed that the bug was marked as NEEDINFO so I attempted to fill in the relevant information.
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>>  From my testing, it seems like IDMA transfers relating to the touchpad input are taking too long and causing timeouts within hid-multitouch.  
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>> I contacted ASUS in an attempt to obtain information relating to the workings of the touchpad that may assist with this issue, however I believe it is unlikely that I will be able to obtain anything useful from them.
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>> I am wondering if anyone has any additional suggestions for next debugging steps or things that I may try - would be happy to provide any additional information or do additional debugging etc.
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>> System Details:
>> Device: ASUS Q528EH with ELAN1206 Touchpad
>> Kernel versions: 6.9-rc6 is where the issue starts, persists through all kernel versions after including latest.
>> Symptoms: Touchpad cursor will not move.  
>>  Additional Observations: Something of potential interest that I noticed was that it appeared the touchpad is sending data byte by byte when doing an IDMA transfer, not sure if that is normal or not.
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>> Any suggestions for next steps are appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your time and input.
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>> Thank you,
>> Aaron Gdanski
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> Looking at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799#c2, dd4478d63b6a2b6891fcc1800eb26ce3f1ead1d4
> seems to be the patch causing regression.

My bad, its 9140ce47872bfd89fca888c2f992faa51d20c2bc, the mailing list link is correct though.
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> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240321120453.1360138-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
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> Ccing relevant folks here.
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