linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work anymore

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Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:13:37 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Éric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] "bind" a device to a driver doesn't not work
	anymore

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:24:16PM +0200, Éric Piel wrote:
> Op 14-10-09 04:05, Dmitry Torokhov schreef:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:52:19AM +0200, Éric Piel wrote:
> >>> Could you please try and let me know if unloading at suspend and
> >>> reloading after resume atkbd and/or psmouse drivers and leaving i8042
> >>> alone "fixes" the issue?
> >>>
> >> Unloading the modules before suspend and reloading them after works
> >> around the issue, indeed.
> >>
> > 
> > Do both of them need to be reloaded? Or only one (my guess psmouse) is
> > enough. Hmm, this is HP laptop so it most likely has Synaptics touchpad.
> > I wonder what happens if you force it to bare PS/2 protocol (or maybe
> > Intellimouse)... Try adding "option psmouse proto=imps" and
> > "option psmouse proto=bare" and suspend/resume.
> Sorry for taking some time to answer back. The keyboard fails to come
> back only on the first suspend-resume (the next suspends, the keyboard
> comes back fine). So I need to reboot the computer for every single test.
> 
> So far, what I can tell is that once the keyboard is not working
> anymore, just unloading and reloading atkbd fixes the problem. Attached
> is a dmesg log from just before supsending to after resume. The keyboard
> doesn't work anymore but the touchpad do. The lines at the very end of
> the log correspond to keypresses: although the keyboard doesn't work,
> there are still 3 interrupt per keypress generated:
> 
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 1c <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [320670]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: f0 <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [320751]
> drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 1c <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 1) [320753]
> 
> That's all the date for now. I'll test your questions about psmouse
> later on, and report back.
> 

It lokks like the keyboard controller switched from translated to
non-translated mode: '1c' is make code and 'f0 1c' is break (aka
release) code.

Could you tell me how the keyboard indentified (in dmesg) after fresh
boot and after you do the bind/unbind trick on the older kernel?

-- 
Dmitry
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