Re: [PATCH] [2.5.68] [BUG #18] Add Synaptics touchpad tweaking to psmouse driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:46:28PM -0400, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> One of the side-effects of the new input layer is that the old usermode 
> tools for manipulating the touchpad configuration don't work any more.
> 
> Most importantly, the ability to disable the tap-to-click "feature".
> And this has been long-recognized, as bug #18.  :)
> 
> So, here's my crack at scratching this itch.  it defaults to disabling 
> the tap-to-click, but there's a module parameter to re-enable it.
> 
> I started writing this from the perspective of a full-native synaptics
> driver, using the absolute mode of operation, which will let us do all
> sorts of yummy things like corner taps and virtual scroll wheels and
> sensitivity and whatnot... Anyone else working on this, before I wade
> further in?
> 
> All of the new code is wrapped in #ifdef SYNAPTICS.

This is messy as hell - what about copying psmouse.c, remove all
that code not relevant to the touchpad and make it a driver of it's
own?