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[Kent Baxley <1305522@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@John Hupp,

No.  This is adding support for i2c-based Synaptics touchpads, which are
relatively new devices.

The XPS 15 with the non-i2c touchpad has had no problems double tapping
anything so far, even before this patched kernel was applied.

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Title:
  Backport Synaptics HID touchpad driver for 14.04

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “linux” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Synaptics just upstreamed a new set of HID touchpad driver:

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for-3.16/rmi4&id=9fb6bf02e3ad04c20edb8e46536ce3eeda32c736

  It's better we can have it in 14.04 .

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