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Bug 904079

Summary: Feature request kernel default config should support elan touchpads on amd notebooks
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects Reporter: alfwue
Component: genkernelAssignee: Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description alfwue 2023-04-09 16:35:28 UTC
Hello,

to suport elan touchpads on amd notebooks, please add the following two options to the default kernel config:
Device Drivers  ---> 
HID support  --->
I2C HID support  --->
<M> HID over I2C transport layer ACPI driver

Device Drivers  ---> 
-*- Pin controllers  --->
[*]   AMD GPIO pin control

As a diff:
diff -u bak/etc/kernels/kernel-config-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64 /etc/kernels/kernel-config-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64 
--- bak/etc/kernels/kernel-config-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64	2023-04-09 12:13:08.587437617 +0200
+++ /etc/kernels/kernel-config-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64	2023-04-09 17:13:09.935826292 +0200
@@ -4424,7 +4424,7 @@
 CONFIG_PINCONF=y
 CONFIG_GENERIC_PINCONF=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_PINCTRL is not set
-# CONFIG_PINCTRL_AMD is not set
+CONFIG_PINCTRL_AMD=y
 # CONFIG_PINCTRL_CY8C95X0 is not set
 # CONFIG_PINCTRL_MCP23S08 is not set
 
@@ -6811,9 +6811,11 @@
 #
 # I2C HID support
 #
-# CONFIG_I2C_HID_ACPI is not set
+CONFIG_I2C_HID_ACPI=m
 # end of I2C HID support
 
+CONFIG_I2C_HID_CORE=m
+
 #
 # Intel ISH HID support
 #

Thank You.