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From: Andrey Moiseev <o2g.org.ru@gmail.com>
To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: input: i8042 possible bug
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:39:10 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52261EBE.5010007@gmail.com> (raw)

Here is an extract from drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:
> 
> static int i8042_flush(void)
> {
> 	unsigned long flags;
> 	unsigned char data, str;
> 	int i = 0;
> 
> 	spin_lock_irqsave(&i8042_lock, flags);
> 
> 	while (((str = i8042_read_status()) & I8042_STR_OBF) && (i < I8042_BUFFER_SIZE)) {
> 		udelay(50);
> 		data = i8042_read_data();
> 		i++;
> 		dbg("%02x <- i8042 (flush, %s)\n",
> 		    data, str & I8042_STR_AUXDATA ? "aux" : "kbd");
> 	}
> 
> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8042_lock, flags);
> 
> 	return i;
> }
> 
> static int i8042_controller_check(void)
> {
> 	if (i8042_flush() == I8042_BUFFER_SIZE) {
Doesn't it panic needlessly, while the buffer was initially full?
> 		pr_err("No controller found\n");
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> }

             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-03 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-03 17:39 Andrey Moiseev [this message]
2013-09-03 18:11 ` input: i8042 possible bug Dmitry Torokhov

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