Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:22:21 -0700 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] patches to settle i8042 with Intel MID platforms |
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:45:17PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/05/2010 08:03 AM, feng.tang@intel.com wrote: > > From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> > > > > Hi All, > > > > Some x86 platforms like intel MID platforms don't have i8042 controllers, > > and i8042 driver's probe to some non-exist legacy IO ports may hang > > the MID processor. > > > > Current solution for this is add dependency of SERIO_I8042 over > > !X86_MRST, then if we build a x86 kernel image with X86_MRST=y, > > it won't have i8042 driver support over common x86 platforms. > > > > So we add a i8042 pre-detect hook into x86_platforms ops, so that > > i8042 driver can use it to run-time judge whether to go on with > > probe process. > > > > Please review these patches. > > > > Looks good to me. Dmitry, what do you think? >
Looks hood to me as well. We can either merge it through my tree or x86 tree, I don't have a preference.
-- Dmitry
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