As the synaptics device may not respond to the first command in psmouse_probe when a machine is booting up, the patch gives a second probe if the first one fails.
Signed-off-by: Chung-yih Wang <cyw...@chromium.org> --- drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c b/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c index 22fe254..c4fc5ad 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c @@ -1053,8 +1053,17 @@ static int psmouse_probe(struct psmouse *psmouse) */ param[0] = 0xa5; - if (ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID)) - return -1; + if (ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID)) { + /* + * Reprobe the device if it did not respond to the GETID + * command. Before retry, additional dummy command is sent + * to clear the 'RESEND' response if exists. + */ + psmouse_warn(psmouse, "GETID probe failed, retrying...\n"); + ps2_command(ps2dev, NULL, PSMOUSE_CMD_SETSCALE11); + if (ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID)) + return -1; + } if (param[0] != 0x00 && param[0] != 0x03 && param[0] != 0x04 && param[0] != 0xff) -- 1.7.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/