linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] Input: serio: make HYPERV_KEYBOARD depend on SERIO

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:15:25 +0000
From:	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"dmitry.torokhov@...il.com" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
	"apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
	"jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Input: serio: make HYPERV_KEYBOARD depend on
 SERIO_I8042=y

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg KH
> > > What exactly needs to be done to fix this "correctly" that is going to
> > > take too much work at the moment?
> >
> > To decouple the dependency between the hyperv-keyboard and i8042
> > modules, I suppose we probably have to re-implement hyperv-keyboard by
> > using input_allocate_device(), input_register_device(), and using
> > input_report_key() to pass the key strokes to the high level.
> 
> Yes, that would be the best thing to do, and shouldn't be that hard to
> create an input driver, it's pretty simple code, right?
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the confirmation!
I didn't use the APIs before. 
I think I need a couple of days to code, test and debug it while I have many
 things at hand at present. :-(

> > I'll have to need some time for further investigation and a new
> > implementation. Before the new code is completely ready, IMHO the
> > patch can help to avoid a bad user experience like Arch Linux working
> > as a Generation 2 hyper-v guest.
> 
> You are still preventing Arch from working here, as the driver can't be
> built at all, right?
The driver can build(compile) fine.
The issue is: the latest Arch Linux release doesn't have a working (virtual)
keyboard when it runs as Generation 2 hyper-v guest -- when it runs as
a "traditional" Generation 1 hyper-v guest, everything works fine.
I hope this patch can temporarily help Arch users if they find the issue
and if they can rebuild the kernel.
 
> > BTW, looks most of Linux distros (like RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE) have
> > CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y, probably because it's the result of
> > "make defconfig". So the patch actually doesn't affect these distros.
> 
> Or maybe it is beause they use older kernels and like to turn on every
> single possible option :)
If these 3 distros had =m, we could have found the issue earlier.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan
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