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2.5 Synaptics Input Driver

Well, it's code complete. It's even feature complete, except for support for the four-button touchpads. Edge scrolling, dragging, programmable corner taps, multifinger support.. the works. (And it even works in the "standard" relative mode, if all you want to do is disable tap-to-click!)

Except for um, testing it out. :) That'll probably come tonight, after work. And then out goes a second release for those interested in testing. I know I'll need to export the various options to /proc or /sysfs or whatever, instead of module options.. but I want to leave that out until the rest of the driver is solid. Drop me a line if you want it sooner rather than later. :)

The Reality Construction Kit

Someone once told me, "Experience is a wonderful thing. It lets me see my mistakes every time I repeat them."

MichaelCrawford, you raise an interesting point, and one of my pet peeves.. I grew up being told "this is the way things are, deal with it", and, more importantly, was continually told what I couldn't do. And like a dutiful student, I went along with it, with a deeply buried secret belief that there was more out there, and "the way things were" seemed rather futile and pointless. It took me many years to realize that, yes, everyone else really can be (and indeed, usually is) wrong, that I control my own fate, and that I could accomplish anything I set myself to.

I find myself encouraging everything and everyone I can these days. Yet sometimes.. I find that I'm the one who needs encouraging, falling back into the old traps, when there are things I can't directly do anything about and I lose my momentum.

Now once you throw in other people, realities can start to get pretty screwy indeed, but that's another matter entirely. :)

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