RE: [PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to supportHyper-V synthetic keyboard

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Thu Sep 19 2013 - 12:31:55 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:53 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; vojtech@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support Hyper-V
> synthetic keyboard
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:27:51PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:01 PM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> > > input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; vojtech@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support
> Hyper-V
> > > synthetic keyboard
> > >
> > > Hi K.Y.,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:26:58PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > Add a new driver to support synthetic keyboard. On the next generation
> > > > Hyper-V guest firmware, many legacy devices will not be emulated and this
> > > > driver will be required.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to thank Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> for helping me with
> the
> > > > details of the AT keyboard driver. I would also like to thank
> > > > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> and
> > > > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> for their detailed review of
> > > this
> > > > driver.
> > > >
> > > > I have addressed all the comments of Dan and Dmitry in this version of
> > > > the patch
> > >
> > > This looks much better. Could you tell me if the patch below (on top of
> > > yours) still works?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Thank you. The code looks much better now. You forgot to initialize the
> port_data and
> > after I fixed that everything seems to work as it did before: Here is the patch I
> used:
>
> Excellent, thank you for trying it out. I folded it all together and
> queued for 3.13.

Thank you.

Regards,

K. Y

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