Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:55:04 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch 08/28] Input: prepare to sysfs integration |
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:17:00PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 10/5/05, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:01:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Input: prepare to sysfs integration > > > > > > Add struct class_device to input_dev; add input_allocate_dev() > > > to dynamically allocate input devices; dynamically allocated > > > devices are automatically registered with sysfs. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> > > > > Ok, I've applied this one, and the other "convert the input drivers to > > be dynamic" to my tree, as this is all great work. > > > > I'll work on the last few patches that you have, with regard to how to > > tie it into sysfs "properly" now, and get back to you, just wanted to > > apply all of these, so we have a common base to work on. > > > > Greg, > > Could you please drop these patches for a while? Or maybe just don't > push them to Linus yet.
How about I hold on to them, until you send me replacements for them? I'm using quilt so I can just drop them and add your new ones very easily. I will not push them to Linus until you and Vojtech say it's ok for me to do so.
> The reason is that I want to change input_allocate_device to take > bitmap of supported events. This way I could allocate ABS tables > dynamically at the same time I allocate input_dev itself and it will > simplify error handling logic in drivers and it will save I think 1260 > bytes per input_dev structure which is nice. And I don't want to go > through all subsystems yet again soI want to fold into my input > dynalloc patch...
That sounds good.
thanks,
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