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From: Henrique de M. H. <hm...@hm...> - 2018-10-23 04:01:49
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, Jaak Ristioja 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? It looks like it is failing to detect N1X and N1 as different models, the bug is likely on this commit: commit 846a416b4630fc960c10500b4194ad504bc22d4b platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Proper model/release matching Real life has been **extremely** busy, so I'd appreciate a patch. Otherwise I will eventually get to it, but it might take a few weeks(!!). -- Henrique Holschuh |
