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To try the latest xpad driver (with the December patch due to be in Linux 4.5, rather than the one earlier in this thread), these instructions should hopefully do the trick:
# Cleanup, just in case you installed it before
sudo rm -fR /usr/src/xpad-0.4
# get the latest xpad from the github staging repo
sudo git clone https://github.com/paroj/xpad.git /usr/src/xpad-0.4
# Add build and install xpad with dkms
sudo dkms install -m xpad -v 0.4
# The xpad module is installed to DKMS and it will be build on each kernel update automatically.
You can optionally also run this test script. It should cause a kernel panic if the bug is still present.
wget -O test-xpad.sh http://pastebin.com/raw/Pbu2bgM2
chmod a+x test-xpad.sh
#next command will crash the system within a min or two (probably much less) IF the bug is not fixed
./test-xpad.sh
# Press Ctrl+C to end the test
If you are on Arch, you can instead just use this AUR package[aur.archlinux.org] to do all that automatically.
If you really want to use the linux 4.5[git.kernel.org] (or any other) version, you should be able to just replace /usr/src/xpad-0.4/xpad.c with the version you want to use.
NOTE: The patch that fixes this introduced another issue[github.com]. However if you install as instructed above, you will also get the fix for that new regression, so it's all good :)
FYI: Ubuntu 16.04 has the main kernel panic fix, but not the regression fix. The bug report is here[bugs.launchpad.net]