[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support Hyper-V synthetic keyboard

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Mon Sep 16 15:52:18 UTC 2013



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 8:20 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; linux-input at vger.kernel.org; vojtech at suse.cz;
> olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com; jasowang at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support Hyper-V
> synthetic keyboard
> 
> Hi K. Y.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:28:54PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Add a new driver to support synthetic keyboard. On the next generation
> > Hyper-V guest firmware, many legacy devices will not be emulated and this
> > driver will be required.
> >
> > I would like to thank Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz> for helping me with the
> > details of the AT keyboard driver.
> >
> 
> In addition to what Dan said:
> 
> > +
> > +struct synth_kbd_protocol_response {
> > +	struct synth_kbd_msg_hdr header;
> > +	u32 accepted:1;
> > +	u32 reserved:31;
> > +};
> 
> Use of bitfields for on the wire structures makes me uneasy. I know that
> currently you only going to run LE on LE, but still, maybe using
> explicit shifts and masks would be better,

This definition of the data structure is defined by the host. I will see what I
can do here.

> 
> > +
> > +struct synth_kbd_keystroke {
> > +	struct synth_kbd_msg_hdr header;
> > +	u16 make_code;
> > +	u16 reserved0;
> > +	u32 is_unicode:1;
> > +	u32 is_break:1;
> > +	u32 is_e0:1;
> > +	u32 is_e1:1;
> > +	u32 reserved:28;
> > +};
> 
> Same here.
> 
> > +
> > +
> > +#define HK_MAXIMUM_MESSAGE_SIZE 256
> > +
> > +#define KBD_VSC_SEND_RING_BUFFER_SIZE		(10 * PAGE_SIZE)
> > +#define KBD_VSC_RECV_RING_BUFFER_SIZE		(10 * PAGE_SIZE)
> > +
> > +#define XTKBD_EMUL0     0xe0
> > +#define XTKBD_EMUL1     0xe1
> > +#define XTKBD_RELEASE   0x80
> > +
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Represents a keyboard device
> > + */
> > +struct hv_kbd_dev {
> > +	unsigned char keycode[256];
> 
> I do not see anything using keycode table? This is wrong level for it
> regardless.
> 
> > +	struct hv_device	*device;
> > +	struct synth_kbd_protocol_request protocol_req;
> > +	struct synth_kbd_protocol_response protocol_resp;
> > +	/* Synchronize the request/response if needed */
> > +	struct completion	wait_event;
> > +	struct serio		*hv_serio;
> > +};
> > +
> > +
> > +static struct hv_kbd_dev *hv_kbd_alloc_device(struct hv_device *device)
> > +{
> > +	struct hv_kbd_dev *kbd_dev;
> > +	struct serio	*hv_serio;
> 
> You are aligning with tabs half of declarations, leaving the others. Can
> we not align at all?
> 
> > +
> > +	kbd_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hv_kbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +
> > +	if (!kbd_dev)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +
> > +	hv_serio = kzalloc(sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +
> > +	if (hv_serio == NULL) {
> > +		kfree(kbd_dev);
> > +		return NULL;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	hv_serio->id.type	= SERIO_8042_XL;
> > +	strlcpy(hv_serio->name, dev_name(&device->device),
> > +		sizeof(hv_serio->name));
> > +	strlcpy(hv_serio->phys, dev_name(&device->device),
> > +		sizeof(hv_serio->phys));
> > +	hv_serio->dev.parent  = &device->device;
> 
> Do you also want to set up serio's parent device to point to hv device?

Is there an issue here; I could setup the parent as the vmbus device.

> 
> > +
> > +
> > +	kbd_dev->device = device;
> > +	kbd_dev->hv_serio = hv_serio;
> > +	hv_set_drvdata(device, kbd_dev);
> > +	init_completion(&kbd_dev->wait_event);
> > +
> > +	return kbd_dev;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void hv_kbd_free_device(struct hv_kbd_dev *device)
> > +{
> > +	serio_unregister_port(device->hv_serio);
> > +	kfree(device->hv_serio);
> 
> Serio ports are refcounted, do not free them explicitly after they have
> been registered.

Thank you. I will fix this.

> 
> > +	hv_set_drvdata(device->device, NULL);
> > +	kfree(device);
> > +}
> 
> 
> Thanks.


Thank you!.

Regards,

K. Y


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