From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751368AbWG1M5e (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751390AbWG1M5e (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:34 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:25211 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751368AbWG1M5d (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IKeRlbXec6EcPYL/ixrqYeikFNg0Q6T8HudzbZ7wySU7PVLMgy9+sajYeBo7g6zAtVDkmcFwW4HIBY6YyV1poD3229cyMJCOmIiDJdT/z4YfU9oOPdQ/CAoj11gAqx2YbcVk81kynGr1gUSbM2baHccJK7tIRS5iK5GJZSMtUTM= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:31 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Vojtech Pavlik" Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] Remove polling timer from i8042 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Dave Jones" In-Reply-To: <20060727234423.GC4907@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200607270029.05066.dtor@insightbb.com> <20060727234423.GC4907@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/27/06, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:29:04AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > OK, I had it in works for quite some time and Dave's talk in Ottawa > > made me finish it ;) > > Good work. > > However I believe you need to test the AUX IRQ in this case before you > use it, otherwise you'll have a lot of people with non-working keyboards > (the input queue is shared), and probably also non-working PCI cards > (BIOSes like to assign IRQ12 to PCI if no mouse is detected by the > BIOS). > What do you mean by testing AUX IRQ? Use I8042_CMD_AUX_LOOP to see if interrupt fires off? The new code releases IRQ if it can't find a working AUX port... > You'll see whether this test is necessary if a lot of people report > problems without i8042.noaux. > > That can only be seen after extensive testing on a lot of machines, > though. Fortunately 386's and 486's are more or less extinct now, and > with them a lot of the weirder keyboard controllers. > I think I will forward the patch to Andrew and we will see how bad it is. It works on couple of boxes here but I don't have a lot of hardware to test on... -- Dmitry