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Input: alps - document stick behavior for protocol V2
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Document that protocol V2 uses standard (bare) PS/2 mouse packets for the
DualPoint stick.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Acked-By: Pali Rohár <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
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jwrdegoede authored and dtor committed Apr 5, 2015
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Protocol Version 2 DualPoint devices send standard PS/2 mouse packets for
the DualPoint Stick.

Dualpoint device -- interleaved packet format
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byte 8: 0 z6 z5 z4 z3 z2 z1 z0

Devices which use the interleaving format normally send standard PS/2 mouse
packets for the DualPoint Stick + ALPS Absolute Mode packets for the
touchpad, switching to the interleaved packet format when both the stick and
the touchpad are used at the same time.

ALPS Absolute Mode - Protocol Version 3
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