On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:17:00PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 10/5/05, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:01:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Input: prepare to sysfs integration
> > >
> > > Add struct class_device to input_dev; add input_allocate_dev()
> > > to dynamically allocate input devices; dynamically allocated
> > > devices are automatically registered with sysfs.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
> >
> > Ok, I've applied this one, and the other "convert the input drivers to
> > be dynamic" to my tree, as this is all great work.
> >
> > I'll work on the last few patches that you have, with regard to how to
> > tie it into sysfs "properly" now, and get back to you, just wanted to
> > apply all of these, so we have a common base to work on.
> >
>
> Greg,
>
> Could you please drop these patches for a while? Or maybe just don't
> push them to Linus yet.
How about I hold on to them, until you send me replacements for them?
I'm using quilt so I can just drop them and add your new ones very
easily. I will not push them to Linus until you and Vojtech say it's ok
for me to do so.
> The reason is that I want to change input_allocate_device to take
> bitmap of supported events. This way I could allocate ABS tables
> dynamically at the same time I allocate input_dev itself and it will
> simplify error handling logic in drivers and it will save I think 1260
> bytes per input_dev structure which is nice. And I don't want to go
> through all subsystems yet again soI want to fold into my input
> dynalloc patch...
That sounds good.
thanks,
greg k-h
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