Re: 2.6.15-ck1

[Vojtech Pavlik]

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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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