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Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18


The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates.

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates. Google has been leading the work on haptic touchpads for Linux in motivated by their own Chrome/Chromium OS efforts. The haptic touchpad support is in for-6.18/haptic as part of HID.git and since merged to HID's for-next Git branch and thus expected to be submitted as part of the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window.

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