Re: [PATCH/RFC?] usb/input: Add support for fn key on Apple PowerBooks

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:41:40AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:26 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> 
> >   * This is the global environment of the parser. This information is
> > @@ -431,6 +433,14 @@ struct hid_device {							/* device repo
> >  	void (*ff_exit)(struct hid_device*);                            /* Called by hid_exit_ff(hid) */
> >  	int (*ff_event)(struct hid_device *hid, struct input_dev *input,
> >  			unsigned int type, unsigned int code, int value);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK
> > +	/* We do this here because it's only relevant for the
> > +	 * USB devices, not for all input_dev's.
> > +	 */
> > +	unsigned long pb_fn[NBITS(KEY_MAX)];
> > +	unsigned long pb_numlock[NBITS(KEY_MAX)];
> > +#endif
> >  };
> 
> I don't understand the comment above ? You are adding this to all struct
> hid_device ? There can be only one of those keyboards plugged at one
> point in time, I don't think there is any problem having the above
> static in the driver rather than in the hid_device structure.

I think having it in struct hid_device is safer. We might want to
dynamically allocate only for PowerBook keyboards, though, to save
memory.

> 
>   .../...
> 
> >  
> > +	if ((hid->quirks & HID_QUIRK_POWERBOOK_HAS_FN) &&
> > +	    hidinput_pb_event(hid, input, usage, value)) {
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> 
> Dimitry might disagree but it's generally considered bad taste to have
> { and } for a single statement :)

I do agree, though.


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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