linux-kernel - Re: Input: 8042 - only one i8042

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Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:04:43 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Moiseev <o2g.org.ru@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input: 8042 - only one i8042_filter

Hi Andrey,

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:48:21AM +0400, Andrey Moiseev wrote:
> Is it ok that in /drivers/input/serio/i8042.c it's allowed to install
> only one i8042_filter? Theoretically, there may be several different
> devices that need their drivers to install i8042_filter, to eat out
> some device-specific subset of scancodes. Shouldn't that single
> pointer to the i8042_filter be replaced by a list, for example?

The expectation that there will be a single platform specific driver
living in drivers/platform/x86/... that will install platform specific
filter and will do all necessary processing. So far there was no need
for more than one filter.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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