Re: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: setup hotkey polling after changinghotkey_driver_mask

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Date: Mon Feb 08 2010 - 19:13:25 EST


On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:50:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:32:07 -0200
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Brightness notification does not work until the user writes to
> > hotkey_mask attribute. That's because the polling thread will only run
> > if hotkey_user_mask is set and someone is reading the input device or if
> > hotkey_driver_mask is set. In this second case, this condition is not
> > tested after the mask is changed, because the brightness and volume
> > drivers are started after the hotkey drivers.
> >
> > This fix test for the polling condition that ends up starting the
> > polling thread after hotkey_driver_mask is set in brightness and volume
> > init functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 9 +++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > index e67e4fe..d69749d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > @@ -6272,6 +6272,11 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
> > tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set(hotkey_driver_mask
> > | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTUP_MASK
> > | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTDWN_MASK);;
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL
> > + hotkey_poll_setup(true);
> > +#endif
> > +
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -6903,6 +6908,10 @@ static int __init volume_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
> > | TP_ACPI_HKEY_VOLDWN_MASK
> > | TP_ACPI_HKEY_MUTE_MASK);
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL
> > + hotkey_poll_setup(true);
> > +#endif
> > +
> > return 0;
> > }
>
> Something like this is needed, methinks:
>
> - Avoid ifdefs
>
> - Make sure that hotkey_mutex is held when calling hotkey_poll_setup:
> use hotkey_poll_setup_safe. Doesn't matter much in __init code.
>
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c~thinkpad-acpi-setup-hotkey-polling-after-changing-hotkey_driver_mask-fix
> +++ a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -2597,6 +2597,10 @@ static void hotkey_poll_set_freq(unsigne
>
> #else /* CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL */
>
> +static void hotkey_poll_setup(bool __unused)
> +{
> +}
> +
> static void hotkey_poll_setup_safe(bool __unused)
> {
> }
> @@ -2694,9 +2698,7 @@ static ssize_t hotkey_mask_store(struct
>
> res = hotkey_user_mask_set(t);
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL
> hotkey_poll_setup(true);
> -#endif
>
> mutex_unlock(&hotkey_mutex);
>
> @@ -6273,9 +6275,7 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct
> | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTUP_MASK
> | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTDWN_MASK);;
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL
> - hotkey_poll_setup(true);
> -#endif
> + hotkey_poll_setup_safe(true);
>
> return 0;
> }
> _
>

How about the added call to volume_init?

Regards,
Cascardo.

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