On 1/5/06, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, until some driver claims serio port interrupt is not acquired and
thus available for others.
I would say we could bump the timer as high as 5 seconds for
hotplugging. It may give delay with some KVMs, but only first time you
switch to the box in question.
--
Dmitry
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