Re: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:37:29PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:23:53PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>this patch add PNP support for the i8042 driver in 2.6.10-rc1-mm5. Acpi 
> >>is try before the pnp driver so if you don't disable ACPI or apply 
> >>others pnpacpi patches, it won't change anything.
> >>
> >>Please review it and apply if possible
> >
> >
> >Ok, my thoughts on this:
> >
> >	It's OK to keep the device allocated to this driver via the PnP
> >        subsystem, and not bother with releasing the code via
> >	__initcall.
> >
> >	I agree that if there is a way to enumerate the device, (like
> >	PnP, ACPI or OpenFirmware), we should use that instead of
> >	probing and using a platform device for the controller.
> >
> >	I think that we should drop the ACPI support from i8042, in
> >	favor of pnpacpi, because PnP is more generic and if the
> > 	keyboard device was listed in PnPBIOS instead of ACPI, it'll
> >	still work.
> >
> Any news about this ?
 
Sort of fell off my radar, can you resend?

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Vojtech Pavlik
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