Comment 53 for bug 990260

I followed this procedure to build the kernel with the latest patch:
 $ apt-get source linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic
 $ sudo apt-get build-dep linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic
 $ cd linux-3.2.0
 $ chmod +x debian/scripts/misc/* debian/scripts/*
 $ debian/rules updateconfigs
 $ vi drivers/input/mouse/sentelic.c # add #define FSP_DEBUG and #define DEBUG
 $ cd linux-3.2.0/drivers/input/mouse
 $ patch < filter_bad_movement.patch
 $ cd -
 $ env skipabi=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic
 $ cd ..
 $ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.39_amd64.deb linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.39_amd64.deb

This did not improve two finger scroll at all.

Palm detection doesn't work either, which makes typing a hassle. Is this something that is kernel or distro specific?

Also, is there a way to set driver patches without recompiling the entire kernel? Maybe load it like a module or something similar? Compiling the kernel takes a while, which makes testing potential fixes more difficult.