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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:37:29 +0100
From: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
       bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver
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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 ?


Matthieu CASTET
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