On 2015-08-24, Dmitry Torokhov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 04:13:39PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
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Ah, wait, not quite still. So we actually do want to disable
gestures when in Absolute mode (non extended). Although frankly I
do not think we'll ever see pre 4.0 Synaptics device in a wild.

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How about this one?

Nick, Benjamin, could you please give this a spin?

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Input: synaptics - fix handling of disabling gesture mode

Applied on top of 4.1.6, appears to fix the trackpoint buttons on my X250.

Thanks,
  Nick