Re: SERIO_USERDEV patch for 2.6

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 30 May 2004 08:42 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway, looking at the patch, it's not bad, and it's quite close to what
> > > > I was considering to write. I'd like to keep it separate from the
> > > > serio.c file, although it's obvious it'll require to be linked to it
> > > > statically, because it needs hooks there - it cannot be a regular serio
> > > > driver.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Do we really have to have this stuff directly in serio? How about being able
> > > to mark some serio ports as working in raw mode (i8042.raw=0,1,1,0) and have
> > > separate (serio_raw?) module bind to such ports
> > 
> > We don't have to. But it'd be rather convenient to have it. It would
> > work for all serio ports, not just i8042, etc, etc.
> > 
> > And if kept in a separate file (serio-dev.c), it wouldn't mess up things
> > too much.
> 
> I'm starting to get nervous about testing this stuff ... do you 
> think it will it make to 2.6.7? :)
 
No way. ;)

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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