On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 6:32 AM Jaak Ristioja <j...@ristioja.ee> wrote: > > On 27.08.2018 19:22, Jaak Ristioja wrote: > > Upgrading Linux from 4.16 to 4.17, a ThinkPad L570 started receiving > > spurious input events, mostly right mouse button click events, but also > > cursor jumps. > > > > I have not attempted to understand whether these events come from the > > trackpoint or touchpad or some other driver, but I managed to bisect > > this issue to commit a986c75a7df0 titled "platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: > > Add 2nd Fan Support for Thinkpad P50" by Alexander Kappner. > > > > Apparently the quirk mitigation is applied when the BIOS version begins > > with N1. The BIOS version on the L570 in question is N1XET57W (1.35 ) > > which is probably why this commit causes the described problems on the > > ThinkPad L570. How exactly? - I don't know. > > > > The issue did not reproduce when running some stable 4.17 and 4.18 > > kernels with commit a986c75a7df0 reverted. > > > > Please fix this for future kernels. Thanks! :) > > Ping. Do you need any additional information?
Sounds like we need tighter check for the quirk, maybe based on DMI/Board name? Can we revert the offending commit for now? Thanks. -- Dmitry _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
