[PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support Hyper-V synthetic keyboard

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 15:52:59 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:27:51PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:01 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan
> > Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> > devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com;
> > jasowang at redhat.com; dan.carpenter at oracle.com; linux-
> > input at vger.kernel.org; vojtech at suse.cz
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] Drivers: input: serio: New driver to support Hyper-V
> > synthetic keyboard
> > 
> > Hi K.Y.,
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:26:58PM -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. I would also like to thank
> > > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> and
> > > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> for their detailed review of
> > this
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > I have addressed all the comments of Dan and Dmitry in this version of
> > > the patch
> > 
> > This looks much better. Could you tell me if the patch below (on top of
> > yours) still works?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Thank you. The code looks much better now. You forgot to initialize the port_data and
> after I fixed that everything seems to work as it did before: Here is the patch I used:

Excellent, thank you for trying it out. I folded it all together and
queued for 3.13.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry


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