https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209753#c3 has a recording of a supposed palm, resting while typing on a Dell M3800. The event sequence looks like a normal finger. The edge-based palm detection doesn't work for those events, we should figure out if there is some smart typing timeout that we can set so we ignore touch events that start while typing.
commit c2f8b508b9fc661967516ca07d2100ca8749c101 Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Date: Mon Apr 20 16:20:00 2015 +1000 touchpad: use a two-stage timeout for disable-while-typing
commit 0dc058a0c754e61a6c1dd8edf5c11c7ca312e124 Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Date: Thu May 21 16:32:42 2015 +1000 touchpad: touches after the last key press can be release
*** Bug 90658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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