Re: [PATCH] Input: i8042-io - Exclude mips platforms when allocating/deallocating IO regions.

[Aaro Koskinen]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:49:31PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> I think the patch (http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6419/) should be
> applied.  The argumentation for reserving ports in the platform code are
> the same as on x86 - touch the registers and bad things may happen.  This
> is because a fair number of older MIPS platforms were based on x86 chipsets
> or at least are using very similar designs.

If you drop the request_region() from the driver, it will try to probe
anyway regardless what the platform code codes. So bad things could happen,
no?

Currently we can prevent i8042 driver from probing I/O space on PCI-less
Octeons (for example), because we define empty I/O space so request_region()
by driver will fail. So we can actually prevent bad things from happening.
I would call this good design, not an accident.

Maybe I'm missing something? Anyway, I don't have strong feelings whether
this patch is applied or not. My computers will keep on working on either
case.

A.
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