Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:28 -0400, Alan Curry wrote:
> As of 2.6.22 the kernel doesn't recognize the i8042 keyboard/mouse controller
> on the PegasosPPC. This is because of a feature/bug in the OF device tree:
> the "device_type" attribute is an empty string instead of "8042" as the
> kernel expects. This patch (against 2.6.22.1) adds a secondary detection
> which looks for a device whose *name* is "8042" if there is no device whose
> *type* is "8042".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Curry <pacman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Note, if there's a volunteer, we could probably turn that code into a
nice table lookup.

Cheers,
Ben.

> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c.orig	2007-07-24 19:04:17.000000000 -0500
> +++ arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c	2007-07-24 19:06:36.000000000 -0500
> @@ -487,6 +487,10 @@ int check_legacy_ioport(unsigned long ba
>  	switch(base_port) {
>  	case I8042_DATA_REG:
>  		np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "8042");
> +		/* Pegasos has no device_type on its 8042 node, look for the
> +		 * name instead */
> +		if (!np)
> +			np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "8042");
>  		break;
>  	case FDC_BASE: /* FDC1 */
>  		np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "fdc");
> 
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