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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: Use platform-provided devices as i8042 serio parents
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:54:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140307175415.GB25283@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393174996-27764-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com>

Hi Matthew,

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:03:16PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> i8042 devices exposed via platform firmware interfaces such as ACPI or
> Device Tree may provide additional information of use to userspace. Right
> now we don't associate the serio devices with the firmware device, and so
> there's no straightforward way for userspace to make use of that
> information. This patch simply moves the serio parent device to the firmware
> provided device.

Hmm, are we sure it will not mess up power management now that children
serio ports are disconnected from i8042 device?

I also wonder if we need to restructure the whole thing so that we
create AUX and KBD ports separately and convert i8042 code into a
library of sorts...

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-07 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23 17:03 Matthew Garrett
2014-03-07 17:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2014-03-07 19:24   ` Matthew Garrett

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