Re: question about ruby's keyboard.c & keybdev.c

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 04:19:34PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:

> On Montag, 8. Juli 2002 19:01, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Exactly. i8042.c has quite a few assumptions in it. It uses inb/out
> > > instead of ioremap/readb/writeb, it assumes control and data register are
> > > 4 addresses apart and it assumes no special sequences are necessary to
> > > access these registers.
> >
> > Some time ago I thought about this when I looked at the sparc i8042
> > driver. I tried a few things but I didn't come up with a solution.
> 
> What do you all think about the appended patch? With the strategy in the patch 
> it should be possible to initialize and use i8042 chips on pretty much every 
> platform without code duplication.
> 
> The patch compiles on PPC (and thus should on x86 too), but I can't test it 
> cause I don't have access to the affected embedded boards.
> 
> If you like the approach, please apply it to the linux-input repo after 
> testing on x86.

Ok, pushed, should be there.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs