diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 4960c667dad8..02e32fab329f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 598972d4fb39c8a0826b396e45dc2a8c1dbe4f11
+refs/heads/master: 887cc127233f34e833d074380f433a04de207563
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c b/trunk/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
index e42a0a4345ac..c77788bf932d 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
@@ -655,6 +655,16 @@ int synaptics_init(struct psmouse *psmouse)
 
 	set_input_params(psmouse->dev, priv);
 
+	/*
+	 * Encode touchpad model so that it can be used to set
+	 * input device->id.version and be visible to userspace.
+	 * Because version is __u16 we have to drop something.
+	 * Hardware info bits seem to be good candidates as they
+	 * are documented to be for Synaptics corp. internal use.
+	 */
+	psmouse->model = ((priv->model_id & 0x00ff0000) >> 8) |
+			  (priv->model_id & 0x000000ff);
+
 	psmouse->protocol_handler = synaptics_process_byte;
 	psmouse->set_rate = synaptics_set_rate;
 	psmouse->disconnect = synaptics_disconnect;