Re: [PATCH] input: New driver for Altera PS/2 controller

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:24:16PM +0800, Thomas Chou wrote:
> On 10/10/2009 12:56 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:59:12PM +0800, Thomas Chou wrote:
>>    
>>> This patch adds a new SERIO driver to support the Altera University
>>> Program PS/2 controller.
>>>
>>>      
>> Thank you for the patch, it looks like it is reasonable written although
>> it should do request_mem_region for the IO memory region it tries to
>> remap and also IO addresses should not be cast to unsigned int but
>> rather 'void __iomem *'. I also don;t see the reason for it to depend on
>> EMBEDDED since the things that depend on EMBEDDED are usually features
>> that are used almost by everyone and only in case of embedded arch you
>> may want to turn them off to save some memory.
>>
>> I also prefer even static functions to have the driver name as their
>> prefix - this way if I see a backtrace I know exactly which module is
>> involved.
>>
>> I made a small patch on top of yours, please give it a try and if it did
>> not break anything then I will fold it all together and queue for
>> 2.6.33.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>    
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Thank you very much for your help. I have tested the updated driver with  
> PS/2 keyboard and mouse on boards. They all worked well.
>

Great, tahnk you for giving it a spin. I'll queue the driver for 2.6.33.

-- 
Dmitry
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