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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Stephen Evanchik <evanchsa@gmail.com>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.6.11-rc4]: IBM TrackPoint configuration support
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:31:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502132031.02214.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a71293c2050213163253b9b98f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 13 February 2005 19:32, Stephen Evanchik wrote:
> Here is the latest IBM TrackPoint patch. I believe I made all of the
> necessary changes in this release including the removal of the
> middle-to-scroll functionality. One item I didn't address was a
> comment about checking the return code of ps2_command ..
> 
> I looked at other usages and it wasn't clear to me how to actually
> implement something that is sane. In some places an error causes a
> return out of the function and in others the return value is ignored.
> Should I check each return value or the first ?

I would check all 3 ps2_command calls in trackpoint_init and leave
the rest as is.

One more thing - I'd like to see more descriptive names of sysfs
attributes, for example I'd change "ptson" to "press_to_select",
"mb" to "middle_btn", etc.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14  0:32 PATCH 2.6.11-rc4]: IBM TrackPoint configuration support Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-14  1:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-02-15 14:16   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-16  4:13     ` Stephen Evanchik
2005-02-16  5:20       ` Dmitry Torokhov

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