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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:17:33 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:54:54 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:52:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Friday 04 February 2005 01:35, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:34:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:43, Stephen Evanchik wrote:
> > > > > Vojtech,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties
> > > > > as well as scroll wheel emulation.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Very nice although I have a couple of comments.
> > > >
> > > > >  /*
> > > > > + * Try to initialize the IBM TrackPoint
> > > > > + */
> > > > > +       if (max_proto > PSMOUSE_PS2 && trackpoint_init(psmouse) == 0) {
> > > > > +               psmouse->vendor = "IBM";
> > > > > +               psmouse->name = "TrackPoint";
> > > > > +
> > > > > +               return PSMOUSE_PS2;
> > > >
> > > > Why PSMOUSE_PS2? Reconnect will surely not like it.
> > >
> > > Indeed. IIRC this patch killed wheel mouse detection in ubuntu.
> > >
> >
> > We may need yet another psmouse_reset after unsuccessful test.
> 
> We probably should do one after every test for isolation. It's not that
> big a problem now that we do the probing from a thread.
> 

It is still a problem if driver is registered after the port has been
detected wich quite often is the case as many people have psmouse as a
module.

I wonder if we should make driver registration asynchronous too. I
don't forsee any issues providing that I bump up module's reference
count while driver structure is "in flight", do you?

-- 
Dmitry
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