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bcm5974 touchpad is not recognized as touchpad

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35574: bcm5974 touchpad is not recognized as touchpad
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:36:37 +0200

Hello Florian,

> I tested the patch with linux-libre 5.4 on various x86_64 machines and
> I tested 5.4, 4.19 and 4.4 on my Macbook.  I did not wait for
> compilation to complete on non-Intel architectures, but I doubt the
> patch causes problems.

Thanks for fixing this! This seems like a reasonable choice. However, I
noticed that on Ubuntu, CONFIG_USB_MOUSE is set to 'M'. So maybe they
have some special udev/blacklist rules to handle this case?

> I suppose this can go directly to master even though it requires the
> linux-libre to be rebuilt?

Yes, the kernel is frequently updated on master anyways.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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