From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-ck1
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:39:05 +0100
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On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:30, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 January 2006 07:42, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > 
> > > > I haven't checked recently if keyboard has been fixed by now.
> > > 
> > > It's not. At this moment it's impossible to remove without significant
> > > surgery to the driver, because it'd prevent hotplugging and many KVMs
> > > from working.
> > 
> > Sorry? You say you can't do hot plugging in the keyboard driver
> > without a polling timer? 
> > 
> > That sounds quite bogus to me. A zillion other OS do keyboards
> > fine without polling timers.
>  
> I can either have the polling timer, or the IRQs acquired all the time.
> The later needs significant changes to the driver - I currently enable
> the IRQs only if a device is present.

You mean you run the timer to avoid aquiring the interrupt early? 

-Andi
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