Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:45:17 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] patches to settle i8042 with Intel MID platforms |
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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?
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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