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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver
Hi,

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:23:53PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>this patch add PNP support for the i8042 driver in 2.6.10-rc1-mm5. Acpi
>>is try before the pnp driver so if you don't disable ACPI or apply
>>others pnpacpi patches, it won't change anything.
>>
>>Please review it and apply if possible
>
>
> Ok, my thoughts on this:
>
> It's OK to keep the device allocated to this driver via the PnP
> subsystem, and not bother with releasing the code via
> __initcall.
>
> I agree that if there is a way to enumerate the device, (like
> PnP, ACPI or OpenFirmware), we should use that instead of
> probing and using a platform device for the controller.
>
> I think that we should drop the ACPI support from i8042, in
> favor of pnpacpi, because PnP is more generic and if the
> keyboard device was listed in PnPBIOS instead of ACPI, it'll
> still work.
>
Any news about this ?


Matthieu CASTET
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