Re: [PATCH 0/16] New set of input patches

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-31T09:09:29Z

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:35:18PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > You're right. I forgot that serio isn't anymore tied to the driver and
> > can cease to exist on its own asynchronously. However, I'm still not
> > sure whether it's worth it. We might as well simply drop the unregister
> > call in i8042_open for AUX completely and forget about asynchronous
> > unregisters and use normal refcounting. As far as grep knows, it's the
> > only user.
>
> I am pretty sure I will need asynchronous unregister in some form when
> I finish dynamic protocol switching in psmouse (those darned pass-through
> ports!). Plus again, having these 2 methods will draw driver writers'
> attention to the existence of this particular problem.

OK. I'm convinced.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR