Re: driver model for inputs
From: viro
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 18:12:41 EST
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:48:44PM -0800, Hanna Linder wrote:
> --On Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:28:25 PM +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >> tree. Hanna Linder is working on the input sysfs patches, and has
> >> posted some work in the past.
> >
> > I could only find 2.5.70 patches, and those did not seem "good enough"
> > to do power managment with them. Do you have some newer version?
> >
> > [One of machines near me needs keyboard to be reinitialized after S3
> > sleep... And users are starting to hit that, too.]
> > Pavel
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> I have test8 version of the patch which mostly works. The only problem now
> is a panic when I remove the mouse... The input layer is sorta hard to follow
> you know :) Im guessing it is a reference counting issue. Do you want what I
> have now or can I update it to test9 and see if taking a break from staring
> at it has helped?
Post it for review, please. We are only now getting somewhat close to fixing
sysfs-related breakage in netdev and input layer is much more vile when it
comes to locking (and lack of it) and lifetime rules (ditto).
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