Re: [PATCH 0/1] input: keyboard: add qci keyboard driver

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Sep 07 2010 - 18:14:23 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:57:59PM -0400, Neil Leeder wrote:
> On 9/3/2010 4:37 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> >Does this mean you are not interested in getting drivers for the current
> >generation of hardware to mainline?
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> That's correct - I don't think there is much future for the current
> hardware if we can come up with a cleaner solution for the new
> versions.

Ah, OK, I see.

> I will test 0xF5 with the new hardware. I think we may
> still need a new keyboard driver, just rewritten to have a serio
> backend.

It would be great if newer hardware could make use of the atkbd driver
(if it is going to use serio + PS/2 ports on the EC).

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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