Re: [PATCH] HID: multitouch: fix Dell Precision 7550 and 7750 button type

thx for working on this

On 20.03.22 20:06, José Expósito wrote:

The touchpad present in the Dell Precision 7550 and 7750 laptops
reports a HID_DG_BUTTONTYPE of type MT_BUTTONTYPE_CLICKPAD. However,
the device is not a clickpad, it is a touchpad with physical buttons.

In order to fix this issue, a quirk for the device was introduced in
libinput [1] [2] to disable the INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD property:

	[Precision 7x50 Touchpad]
	MatchBus=i2c
	MatchUdevType=touchpad
	MatchDMIModalias=dmi:*svnDellInc.:pnPrecision7?50*
	AttrInputPropDisable=INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD

However, because of the change introduced in 37ef4c19b4 ("Input: clear
BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads") the BTN_RIGHT key bit is not mapped
anymore breaking the device right click button.

In order to fix the issue, create a quirk for the device forcing its
button type to touchpad regardless of the value reported by the
firmware.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/481
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868789

Nitpicking: those should be "Link" tags, as explained in
'Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst' and
'Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst'? Never tried, but if you want to
make them footnote-style this should work according to the docs:

Link:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/481  [1]
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868789  [2]

In anyone wonders why I care: there are internal and publicly used tools
and scripts out there that reply on proper "Link" tags. I don't known
how many, but there is at least one public tool I'm running that cares:
regzbot, my regression tracking bot, which I use to track Linux kernel
regressions and generate the regression reports sent to Linus. Proper
"Link:" tags allow the bot to automatically connect regression reports
with fixes being posted or applied to resolve the particular regression
-- which makes regression tracking a whole lot easier and feasible for
the Linux kernel. That's why it's a great help for me if people set
proper "Link" tags.

While at it, let me tell regzbot about this thread:
#regzbot ^backmonitor:
https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/s5htubv32s8.wl-tiwai@suse.de/

Fixes: 37ef4c19b4 ("Input: clear BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads")
Signed-off-by: José Expósito <redacted>
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Ciao, Thorsten