[parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Matthew Wilcox]

So it seems to me that all of drivers/hil (in the 2.5 tree) depends
on stuff in drivers/input.  Is there any reason it shouldn't be in
drivers/input/hil rather than drivers/hil?  Or is there an even better
place to put it?

I notice that we don't even have the option to select the HIL configure
options in 2.5 at the moment, which means nobody's testing on 715/Scorpio
and similar boxes.  This is a shame... my goal for 2.6 is to get to a 20k
diff vs Linus' tree.  Which reminds me, it's time for a 2.5 status report.
Coming right up..

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Re: [parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Carlos O'Donell]

> 
> So it seems to me that all of drivers/hil (in the 2.5 tree) depends
> on stuff in drivers/input.  Is there any reason it shouldn't be in
> drivers/input/hil rather than drivers/hil?  Or is there an even better
> place to put it?
> 
> I notice that we don't even have the option to select the HIL configure
> options in 2.5 at the moment, which means nobody's testing on 715/Scorpio
> and similar boxes.  This is a shame... my goal for 2.6 is to get to a 20k
> diff vs Linus' tree.  Which reminds me, it's time for a 2.5 status report.
> Coming right up..
> 

Willy,

I could give 2.5 a whirl on the following boxes: 715/50 and 715/33.
I'll get back to you with results.

Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: [parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Thibaut VARENE]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:57:23 +0000
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> 
> So it seems to me that all of drivers/hil (in the 2.5 tree) depends
> on stuff in drivers/input.  Is there any reason it shouldn't be in
> drivers/input/hil rather than drivers/hil?  Or is there an even better
> place to put it?
> 
> I notice that we don't even have the option to select the HIL configure
> options in 2.5 at the moment, which means nobody's testing on 715/Scorpio
That's not true, I've worked hard enough on 2.5 config system, and especially on HIL, to deny such statement ;^)

These options are already in the Input Drivers section of 2.5 config
Check for Serial i/o support, then you'll get the HP HIL driver core support.

There are various dependencies on whether or not you enable the Mouse interface and other stuff, but all options are present.

AFAICR, I already have said when we merged 2.4 config files into 2.5 that HIL driver files and config may need review.

It looks like time has come for such review.

I would like to hear from Helge Deller too.


Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:31:32PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> That's not true, I've worked hard enough on 2.5 config system, and
> especially on HIL, to deny such statement ;^)

OK, it's nowhere to be found in 2.5.45 ;-)  I guess this change got lost
during the Kconfig transition.

> AFAICR, I already have said when we merged 2.4 config files into 2.5 that
> HIL driver files and config may need review.
> 
> It looks like time has come for such review.

Certainly, that was what i was starting to do when i noticed nothing was
including the Kconfig stuff in drivers/hil ... and that no Makefile was
linking drivers/hil.  So it's not _just_ the Kconfig changes that broke
this.

> I would like to hear from Helge Deller too.

Yep, and Brian Julin... at least to hear that they don't care where
these drivers are put.

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Re: [parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Thibaut VARENE]

Le lundi, 4 nov 2002, =E0 00:18 Europe/Paris, Matthew Wilcox a =E9crit :

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:31:32PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
>> That's not true, I've worked hard enough on 2.5 config system, and
>> especially on HIL, to deny such statement ;^)
>
> OK, it's nowhere to be found in 2.5.45 ;-)  I guess this change got=20
> lost
> during the Kconfig transition.
Well yes indeed. I guess I should read _all_ my mails before answering=20=

one, when coming back from vacation :)

I saw we switched to KConfig, therefore we lost all the changes made to=20=

Config.[in|help] files, which is too bad since there were numerous.

I'll try to merge these changes to the new KConfig scheme ASAP.
>
>> AFAICR, I already have said when we merged 2.4 config files into 2.5=20=

>> that
>> HIL driver files and config may need review.
>>
>> It looks like time has come for such review.
>
> Certainly, that was what i was starting to do when i noticed nothing=20=

> was
> including the Kconfig stuff in drivers/hil ... and that no Makefile =
was
> linking drivers/hil.  So it's not _just_ the Kconfig changes that =
broke
> this.
ok
>
>> I would like to hear from Helge Deller too.
>
> Yep, and Brian Julin... at least to hear that they don't care where
> these drivers are put.
indeed =3D)
>
>
Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] Placement of hil drivers

[Thomas Marteau]

Hi all,

This directory was created to store the HIL development files during the 
process. Personally, I don't have any kind of hardware correctly 
connected to continue what Brian did.

AFAIK, Helge thought that it was too heavy and when it is acceptable, it 
will go into input.

Hope this helps, Thomas.