Re: [PATCH][RFC]: Clean up resource allocation in i8042 driver

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:35:40 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:43:36AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:14:46 -0500, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The following patch cleans up resource allocations in the i8042 driver
> > > when initialization fails.
> > >
> > ...
> > >
> > >                if (i8042_command(&param, I8042_CMD_CTL_TEST)) {
> > > -                       printk(KERN_ERR "i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout.\n");
> > > +                       if (i8042_read_status() != 0xFF)
> > > +                               printk(KERN_ERR "i8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout.\n");
> > > +                       else
> > > +                               printk(KERN_ERR "i8042.c: no i8042 controller found.\n");
> >
> > Is this documented somewhere?
> 
> No. But vacant ports usually return 0xff. The problem here is that 0xff
> is a valid value for the status register, too. Fortunately this patch
> checks for 0xff only after the timeout failed.
> 
> Anyway, I suppose we could fail silently here on ia64 machines where
> ACPI is present.

But it ACPI is present but neither KBD nor PS mouse port is defined in
DSDT (or they not active as far as _STR goes) i8042_plantorm_init will
fail and we won't even get there...

-- 
Dmitry