[REGRESSION] Re: ELAN1206 Touchpad Bugzilla 219799

[REGRESSION] Re: ELAN1206 Touchpad Bugzilla 219799

[Aditya Garg]

On 28-05-2025 07:44 pm, agski33 wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am currently experiencing the issue that was previously reported in the following BugZilla entry: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799.  I noticed that the bug was marked as NEEDINFO so I attempted to fill in the relevant information.
> 
> 
>  From my testing, it seems like IDMA transfers relating to the touchpad input are taking too long and causing timeouts within hid-multitouch.  
> 
> 
> I contacted ASUS in an attempt to obtain information relating to the workings of the touchpad that may assist with this issue, however I believe it is unlikely that I will be able to obtain anything useful from them.
> 
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has any additional suggestions for next debugging steps or things that I may try - would be happy to provide any additional information or do additional debugging etc.
> 
> 
> System Details:
> Device: ASUS Q528EH with ELAN1206 Touchpad
> Kernel versions: 6.9-rc6 is where the issue starts, persists through all kernel versions after including latest.
> Symptoms: Touchpad cursor will not move.  
>  Additional Observations: Something of potential interest that I noticed was that it appeared the touchpad is sending data byte by byte when doing an IDMA transfer, not sure if that is normal or not.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions for next steps are appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your time and input.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Aaron Gdanski

Looking at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799#c2, dd4478d63b6a2b6891fcc1800eb26ce3f1ead1d4
seems to be the patch causing regression.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240321120453.1360138-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/

Ccing relevant folks here.

Re: [REGRESSION] Re: ELAN1206 Touchpad Bugzilla 219799

[Aditya Garg]

On 02-06-2025 11:35 pm, Aditya Garg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28-05-2025 07:44 pm, agski33 wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I am currently experiencing the issue that was previously reported in the following BugZilla entry: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799.  I noticed that the bug was marked as NEEDINFO so I attempted to fill in the relevant information.
>>
>>
>>  From my testing, it seems like IDMA transfers relating to the touchpad input are taking too long and causing timeouts within hid-multitouch.  
>>
>>
>> I contacted ASUS in an attempt to obtain information relating to the workings of the touchpad that may assist with this issue, however I believe it is unlikely that I will be able to obtain anything useful from them.
>>
>>
>> I am wondering if anyone has any additional suggestions for next debugging steps or things that I may try - would be happy to provide any additional information or do additional debugging etc.
>>
>>
>> System Details:
>> Device: ASUS Q528EH with ELAN1206 Touchpad
>> Kernel versions: 6.9-rc6 is where the issue starts, persists through all kernel versions after including latest.
>> Symptoms: Touchpad cursor will not move.  
>>  Additional Observations: Something of potential interest that I noticed was that it appeared the touchpad is sending data byte by byte when doing an IDMA transfer, not sure if that is normal or not.
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions for next steps are appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your time and input.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Aaron Gdanski
> 
> Looking at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799#c2, dd4478d63b6a2b6891fcc1800eb26ce3f1ead1d4
> seems to be the patch causing regression.

My bad, its 9140ce47872bfd89fca888c2f992faa51d20c2bc, the mailing list link is correct though.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240321120453.1360138-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/
> 
> Ccing relevant folks here.
> 

Re: [REGRESSION] Re: ELAN1206 Touchpad Bugzilla 219799

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 11:37:21PM +0530, Aditya Garg wrote:
> On 02-06-2025 11:35 pm, Aditya Garg wrote:
> > On 28-05-2025 07:44 pm, agski33 wrote:

...

> >> I am currently experiencing the issue that was previously reported in the
> >> following BugZilla
> >> entry: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799.  I noticed that
> >> the bug was marked as NEEDINFO so I attempted to fill in the relevant
> >> information.
> >>
> >>  From my testing, it seems like IDMA transfers relating to the touchpad
> >> input are taking too long and causing timeouts within hid-multitouch.  

Is touchpad interface is I²C?

> >> I contacted ASUS in an attempt to obtain information relating to the
> >> workings of the touchpad that may assist with this issue, however I
> >> believe it is unlikely that I will be able to obtain anything useful from
> >> them.
> >>
> >> I am wondering if anyone has any additional suggestions for next debugging
> >> steps or things that I may try - would be happy to provide any additional
> >> information or do additional debugging etc.
> >>
> >> System Details:
> >> Device: ASUS Q528EH with ELAN1206 Touchpad
> >> Kernel versions: 6.9-rc6 is where the issue starts, persists through all
> >> kernel versions after including latest.
> >> Symptoms: Touchpad cursor will not move.  
> >>  Additional Observations: Something of potential interest that I noticed
> >> was that it appeared the touchpad is sending data byte by byte when doing
> >> an IDMA transfer, not sure if that is normal or not.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions for next steps are appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your time and input.
> > 
> > Looking at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219799#c2, dd4478d63b6a2b6891fcc1800eb26ce3f1ead1d4
> > seems to be the patch causing regression.
> 
> My bad, its 9140ce47872bfd89fca888c2f992faa51d20c2bc, the mailing list link is correct though.

It doesn't matter, the patch is technically correct — we do not serve the
spurious (not ours) interrupts.

> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240321120453.1360138-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/
> > 
> > Ccing relevant folks here.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko