Re: locking in psmouse

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:58:30AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > psmouse-base.c does not have any locking. For example psmouse_command
> > > could race with data coming from the mouse, resulting in problem. This
> > > should fix it.
> > 
> > Although I am not arguing that locking might be needed in psmouse module I
> > am somewhat confused how it will help in case of data stream coming from the
> > mouse... If mouse sent a byte before the kernel issue a command then it will
> > be delivered by KBC controller and will be processed by the interrupt handler,
> > probably messing up detection process. That's why as soon as we decide that
> > the device behind PS/2 port is some kind of mouse we disable the stream mode.

Any PS/2 device is supposed to stop talking as soon as it gets a command
until it's done with it. Supposed to. Namely USB Legacy emulation breaks
this rule.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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