Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:13:36 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-ck1 |
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On 1/5/06, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:30, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 07:42, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > > > > > I haven't checked recently if keyboard has been fixed by now. > > > > > > > > It's not. At this moment it's impossible to remove without significant > > > > surgery to the driver, because it'd prevent hotplugging and many KVMs > > > > from working. > > > > > > Sorry? You say you can't do hot plugging in the keyboard driver > > > without a polling timer? > > > > > > That sounds quite bogus to me. A zillion other OS do keyboards > > > fine without polling timers. > > > > I can either have the polling timer, or the IRQs acquired all the time. > > The later needs significant changes to the driver - I currently enable > > the IRQs only if a device is present. > > You mean you run the timer to avoid aquiring the interrupt early? >
Yes, until some driver claims serio port interrupt is not acquired and thus available for others.
I would say we could bump the timer as high as 5 seconds for hotplugging. It may give delay with some KVMs, but only first time you switch to the box in question.
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