AFAICT all the answers were about as information-free as "because <x> is evil" or "because <y> doesn't want to <z>". Sigh. One can be paraphrased as "because t

AFAICT all the answers were about as information-free as "because <x> is evil" or "because <y> doesn't want to <z>". Sigh. One can be paraphrased as "because the vendor code that reads the trackpad reliably and accurately sucks, and of course Linus won't merge sucky code". Uh. If that's so then I'd love to know how those hardware vendors get good results year after year, because IME sucky code is (equals!) unmaintainable code, and writing from scratch every time is not a good way to ship often.