linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: alps: allow incoming reports when only the trackstick is opened

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1810261727320.23511@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:27:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
cc:     Masaki Ota <masaki.ota@...alps.com>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: alps: allow incoming reports when only the trackstick
 is opened

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> If userspace only reads the trackstick node, and no one is listening to
> the touchpad nor the hidraw node then, the device is not powered on.
> 
> Add open/close callbacks to allow users to disable the touchpad in Gnome
> while keeping the trackstick active.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1559632
> Link: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/128
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs