From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mark Laws <mdl@60hz.org>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, haiyangz@microsoft.com,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: i8042 - Fix console keyboard support on Gen2 Hyper-V VMs
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:22:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160419082235.GP4247@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADemMPNu2KuQgwyzLjr+L5ngbLxbOTpM0sKF2TLeZBvpvJjZKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:00:42AM +0900, Mark Laws wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 02:24:47AM +0900, Mark Laws wrote:
> >> Sorry, I don't understand--which part are you suggesting we remove?
> >
> > The call to i8042_controller_check() or move it to the probe function or
> > something. Why must we have the hardware to load the module?
>
> We don't. That's the point of the patch. Do you mean that since our
> intent is to load the module regardless of whether or not the hardware
> is there, the check should be (re)moved simply to clarify the code?
Yeah. Just remove the call to i8042_controller_check(). Wouldn't
everyone be happy with that situation?
Your patch makes life slightly more complicated for people who want to
use the original hardware if the load the module but the hardware isn't
detected.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-19 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 3:30 [PATCH] Input: serio: make HYPERV_KEYBOARD depend on SERIO_I8042=y Dexuan Cui
2014-08-12 3:21 ` Greg KH
2014-08-12 5:51 ` Dexuan Cui
2014-08-12 6:01 ` Greg KH
2014-08-12 7:15 ` Dexuan Cui
2014-08-12 17:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-12 18:01 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-08-13 5:27 ` Dexuan Cui
2014-08-13 5:24 ` Dexuan Cui
2014-08-13 15:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-14 6:07 ` Dexuan Cui
2016-04-18 15:23 ` [PATCH] Input: i8042 - Fix console keyboard support on Gen2 Hyper-V VMs Mark Laws
2016-04-18 15:23 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-18 16:54 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-04-18 17:24 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-18 20:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-04-18 22:00 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-19 8:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-04-19 10:46 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-22 13:00 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-22 13:01 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-22 13:17 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-04-22 17:30 ` Mark Laws
2016-04-22 17:30 ` Mark Laws
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-13 14:38 Mark Laws
2016-06-13 14:38 ` Mark Laws
2016-06-13 20:45 ` [PATCH] [PATCH] Input: i8042 - Fix console keyboard support on Mark Laws
2016-06-13 20:45 ` [PATCH] Input: i8042 - Fix console keyboard support on Gen2 Hyper-V VMs Mark Laws
[not found] <CADemMPNEv+kq21rXQMmB_BjgTsnEjscOCS5A02VAapOOM-ryMA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-07-25 21:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-25 22:15 ` Mark Laws
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