Re: [PATCH 14/28] kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:42:26PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> >> The original logic for putting next to the keyboard.c was because they
> >> are both fighting for the same HW.  Please let me know if this changes
> >> your mind, else I will go ahead and move the keyboard implementation
> >> into the kernel/debug/kdb.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > It does not behause in 2.6 the driver talking to the i8042 is called
> > i8042.c and it is located in drivers/input/serio.
> > drivers/char/keyboard.c does not talk directly to hardware anymore and
> > pc_keyb.c is long gone.
> >
> > Given the fact that your code does not implement a character device I do
> > not see any reason for it to live in drivers/char.
> >   
> 
> I buy your logic.   I have moved the kdb_keyboard.c to
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c.
> 
> Can I assume we have reached closure on this patch for the short term?
>

Yep.

> Eventually I would like to to get rid of kdb_keyboard.c entirely and
> replace it with some kind of way to atomically poll the input devices,
> but this is longer term.
> 

I am not sure how feasible it is. KDB would require hooking very deep
into driver internals do avoid deadlocking on already held locks...

-- 
Dmitry