Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:37:29 +0100 | From | matthieu castet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver |
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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 ?
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