Here's an update from Synaptics as to what's going on. Work is progressing upstream, but, it's rather slow at the moment:
We are making progress upstreaming the driver, but it is going slowly. Dmitry Torokhov has created a branch for our driver in his git tree and we are submitting incremental patches to get the core of our driver in place. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git -b synaptics-rmi4 Because our driver is intended to support all of our RMI4 devices there are several pieces to the driver which make it a bit more complicated then the standard input driver. So far we have submitted the rmi4 core and drivers for function 11 (pointing) and function 30 (the click button). Function 30 hasn't been accepted yet. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg29961.html We also submitted transport driver for I2C devices which do not have HID support. What is submitted right now works for touchscreens, but we still need to submit some additional patches to get touchpad support working correctly. Once those patches are submitted we will the submit the HID transport driver. I'm not quite sure when everything will be finally accepted by Dmitry, but it depends on how quickly things get reviewed and accepted. If people at Canonical can review our patches, that would help too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265885 Title: regression with respect touchpad Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: This regression occurs somewhere between 3.11.0-14-generic (latest on saucy) and 3.13.0-031300rc6-generic (a test kernel). On the earlier kernel, I actually get settings for setting up my touchpad in the unity interface. With the updated kernel, those options disappear. I only get one set of options both my mouse and my touchpad instead of each one independently. It means that I can't set the pointer speed differently or turn on natural scrolling for my touchpad. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1265885/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
