linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] Input: elantech

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Message-ID: <20110818063918.GD10093@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:39:18 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	JJ Ding <jj_ding@....com.tw>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Aaron Huang <aaron_huang@....com.tw>,
	Tom Lin <tom_lin@....com.tw>,
	Eric Piel <E.A.B.Piel@...elft.nl>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...l.unipv.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Input: elantech - work around EC buffer

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:57:07AM +0800, JJ Ding wrote:
> With some EC chips, when we resync due to bad packets, those bad bytes would
> still remain in EC's buffer area. That makes us always get bad data back,
> no matter what.
> 
> So shift packet for 1 byte when encounter bad packet, until we get rid of those
> bytes.

If we want to do this I think it should be done in psmouse core.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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