linux/drivers
Seth Forshee c0394506e6 Input: synaptics - handle out of bounds values from the hardware
The touchpad on the Acer Aspire One D250 will report out of range values
in the extreme lower portion of the touchpad. These appear as abrupt
changes in the values reported by the hardware from very low values to
very high values, which can cause unexpected vertical jumps in the
position of the mouse pointer.

What seems to be happening is that the value is wrapping to a two's
compliment negative value of higher resolution than the 13-bit value
reported by the hardware, with the high-order bits being truncated. This
patch adds handling for these values by converting them to the
appropriate negative values.

The only tricky part about this is deciding when to treat a number as
negative. It stands to reason that if out of range values can be
reported on the low end then it could also happen on the high end, so
not all out of range values should be treated as negative. The approach
taken here is to split the difference between the maximum legitimate
value for the axis and the maximum possible value that the hardware can
report, treating values greater than this number as negative and all
other values as positive. This can be tweaked later if hardware is found
that operates outside of these parameters.

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001251
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2012-07-24 23:55:15 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-06-30 11:11:58 -07:00
amba arm-soc: driver specific updates 2012-05-26 12:22:27 -07:00
ata Viresh has moved 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
atm solos-pci: Fix DMA support 2012-05-24 16:22:53 -04:00
auxdisplay
base PM / Sleep: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous suspend after abort 2012-06-24 23:31:09 +02:00
bcma bcma: fix null pointer in bcma_core_pci_irq_ctl 2012-06-08 13:47:07 -04:00
block mtip32xx: Changes to sysfs entries 2012-05-31 08:46:50 +02:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: btmrvl: Do not send vendor events to bluetooth stack 2012-06-19 00:19:11 -03:00
cdrom
char Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2012-06-18 12:20:36 -07:00
clk clk: mxs: fix clock lookup after freeing init memory 2012-06-25 16:51:48 -07:00
clocksource clocksource: sh_tmu: Use clockevents_config_and_register(). 2012-06-11 17:10:16 +09:00
connector
cpufreq
cpuidle
crypto arm-soc: clock driver changes 2012-05-26 12:42:29 -07:00
dca
devfreq Power management updates for 3.5 2012-05-23 14:07:06 -07:00
dio
dma Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2012-06-20 22:12:52 -07:00
edac edac: Do alignment logic properly in edac_align_ptr() 2012-06-11 12:43:16 -03:00
eisa
extcon extcon: max8997: Add missing kfree for info->edev in max8997_muic_remove() 2012-06-18 16:30:42 -07:00
firewire IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem updates post v3.4: 2012-05-24 12:57:47 -07:00
firmware
gpio gpio/samsung: fix the typo 'exynos5_xxx' instead of 'exonys5_xxx' 2012-06-03 21:21:01 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-fixes 2012-06-27 19:56:20 +01:00
hid Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2012-06-26 11:23:41 -07:00
hsi
hv Driver core pull for 3.5-rc1 2012-05-22 16:02:13 -07:00
hwmon Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-29 10:29:54 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API 2012-06-04 16:49:43 +02:00
ide drivers/ide/ide-cs.c: adjust suspicious bit operation 2012-06-12 15:51:41 -07:00
idle
ieee802154
iio iio: drop wrong reference from Kconfig 2012-06-14 17:28:46 -07:00
infiniband Merge branches 'cma' and 'ocrdma' into for-linus 2012-06-24 04:59:59 -07:00
input Input: synaptics - handle out of bounds values from the hardware 2012-07-24 23:55:15 -07:00
iommu iommu/amd: Fix deadlock in ppr-handling error path 2012-06-04 12:47:44 +02:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-24 11:54:29 -07:00
leds leds: Make LEDS_ASIC3 and LEDS_RENESAS_TPU depend on LEDS_CLASS=y 2012-06-12 10:56:25 +08:00
lguest
macintosh
md md: 2 fixes for 3.5-rc 2012-06-06 09:49:28 -07:00
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-06-25 14:53:09 -07:00
memory
memstick
message Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-05-31 18:10:18 -07:00
mfd Viresh has moved 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
misc misc: mei: set WDIOF_ALARMONLY on mei watchdog 2012-06-13 15:34:31 -07:00
mmc Revert "mmc: omap_hsmmc: Enable Auto CMD12" 2012-06-26 16:10:30 -04:00
mtd Fix the debugfs regression - we never enable it because incorrect 2012-06-28 11:41:43 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-06-28 11:20:31 -07:00
nfc NFC: potential integer overflow problem in check_crc() 2012-05-25 11:16:16 -04:00
nubus
of Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-05-29 18:27:19 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: perf: use NR_CPUS instead or nr_cpumask_bits for static array 2012-06-21 16:15:11 +02:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-05-22 19:22:50 -07:00
parport Driver core pull for 3.5-rc1 2012-05-22 16:02:13 -07:00
pci USB: add NO_D3_DURING_SLEEP flag and revert 151b612847 2012-06-13 13:11:39 -07:00
pcmcia
pinctrl Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-06-20 14:41:57 -07:00
platform drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c: correct Boris' mail address 2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
pnp
power A bunch of fixes for v3.5, nothing extraordinary. 2012-05-31 12:10:15 -07:00
pps
ps3
ptp Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-05-22 19:22:50 -07:00
rapidio rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
regulator regulator: palmas: fix regmap offsets for enable/disable 2012-06-23 11:37:28 +01:00
remoteproc remoteproc/omap: fix dev_err typo 2012-06-17 10:31:03 +03:00
rpmsg
rtc Merge branches 'bugfix-battery', 'bugfix-misc', 'bugfix-rafael', 'bugfix-turbostat', 'bugfix-video' and 'workaround-pss' into release 2012-06-04 00:48:41 -04:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2012-05-31 10:51:10 -07:00
sbus
scsi SCSI & usb-storage: add try_rc_10_first flag 2012-06-22 22:05:31 -07:00
sfi
sh sh: intc: Kill off special reservation interface. 2012-05-22 19:07:55 +09:00
sn
spi SPI: fix over-eager devm_xxx() conversion 2012-06-18 11:27:04 +01:00
ssb
staging Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-06-25 14:53:09 -07:00
target target: Return error to initiator if SET TARGET PORT GROUPS emulation fails 2012-06-12 20:12:25 -07:00
tc
thermal
tty Serial driver fixes for 3.5-rc4 2012-06-20 15:13:13 -07:00
uio
usb USB: CP210x Add 10 Device IDs 2012-06-26 16:14:34 -07:00
uwb
vhost vhost: use USER_DS in vhost_worker thread 2012-06-26 21:10:56 -07:00
video fbdev fixes for 3.5 2012-06-16 16:59:05 -07:00
virt
virtio virtio-mmio: Devices parameter parsing 2012-05-22 12:16:15 +09:30
vlynq
vme
w1 arm-soc: clock driver changes 2012-05-26 12:42:29 -07:00
watchdog watchdog: core: fix WDIOC_GETSTATUS return value 2012-06-28 20:40:56 +02:00
xen Five bug-fixes: 2012-06-15 17:17:15 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig Staging tree pull request for 3.5-rc1 2012-05-22 16:34:21 -07:00
Makefile arm-soc: driver specific updates 2012-05-26 12:22:27 -07:00