From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
Nios2 development list <nios2-dev@sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: New driver for Altera PS/2 controller
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:08:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013010850.GC21626@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD060D0.7090502@wytron.com.tw>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 6:59 [PATCH] input: New driver for Altera PS/2 controller Thomas Chou
2009-10-10 4:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-10-10 10:24 ` Thomas Chou
2009-10-13 1:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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