Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:28:16 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver |
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:37:29PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: > 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 ?
Sort of fell off my radar, can you resend?
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