Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:08:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Early keyboard initialization? |
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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:54 -0400 Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 October 2006 16:42, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any reason for initializing the input layer and keyboards so > > late? Since prevents from being able to perform alt-sysrqs early, and > > blind people who use speakup would like to get early control over the > > speech. Here is the patch that they use. > >
It'd be nice to get sysrq working as early as poss.
> It looks like the change will only work for non-USB input devices since > USB subsystem is initialized much later.
USB is usually modular (isn't it?)
> Greg, is there a reason why USB can't be initialized earlier?
Greg's in hiding.
> Btw, I don't think we need to initialize gameport early and maybe not > entire input but split off input/keyboard in the same fashion that > input/serio and input/gameport are split off. > > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> > > > > --- /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/drivers/Makefile.orig 2006-10-06 11:34:15.000000000 -0400 > > +++ drivers/Makefile 2006-10-06 11:34:15.000000000 -0400 > > @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ > > > > obj-y += serial/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT) += parport/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/ > > obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ net/ media/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS) += nubus/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ > > @@ -50,9 +53,6 @@ > > obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usb/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_PCI) += usb/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += usb/gadget/ > > -obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ > > -obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/ > > -obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_I2O) += message/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB) += rtc/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/
Anyway, I'll duck this. Samuel, an appropriate way to make this happen would be to talk Dmitry into a patch, let it cook in his tree for a couple of months, then merge it into 2.6.20-early.
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