From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264073AbUE3QVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 12:21:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264147AbUE3QVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 12:21:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:39114 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264073AbUE3QUf (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 12:20:35 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: SERIO_USERDEV patch for 2.6 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:10:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20040530134246.GA1828@ucw.cz> <200405301009.21202.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20040530155821.GC1479@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-78-129.29-151.libero.it X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 May 2004 08:42 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, looking at the patch, it's not bad, and it's quite close to what > > > I was considering to write. I'd like to keep it separate from the > > > serio.c file, although it's obvious it'll require to be linked to it > > > statically, because it needs hooks there - it cannot be a regular serio > > > driver. > > > > > > > Do we really have to have this stuff directly in serio? How about being able > > to mark some serio ports as working in raw mode (i8042.raw=0,1,1,0) and have > > separate (serio_raw?) module bind to such ports > > We don't have to. But it'd be rather convenient to have it. It would > work for all serio ports, not just i8042, etc, etc. > > And if kept in a separate file (serio-dev.c), it wouldn't mess up things > too much. I'm starting to get nervous about testing this stuff ... do you think it will it make to 2.6.7? :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters)