Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection
From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-31 21:29:48
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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 <redacted>--- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c.orig 2007-07-2419:04:17.000000000 -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");
[I know it already got merged, I'm behind on mail, but anyway...] Could board-specific quirks like this please always include a check for that board? Or, even better, do a fixup in the bootwrapper. In this case the workaround won't likely trigger on the wrong boards, but "just a little bit" more dangerous workarounds _will_, and the law of big numbers works against us... Segher