linux-kernel - RE: HP disk protection Re: Remn Yan <yan

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Date:	Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:30:10 +0200
From:	"Burman Yan" <yan_952@...mail.com>
To:	pavel@....cz
Cc:	kronos.it@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: HP disk protection Re: Remn Yan <yan_952@...mail.com> ha scritto:




>From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>To: Burman Yan <yan_952@...mail.com>
>CC: kronos.it@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>Subject: HP disk protection Re: Remn Yan <yan_952@...mail.com> ha scritto:
>Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:26:08 +0200
>
>On Fri 2006-10-13 20:32:48, Burman Yan wrote:
> > >From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
>
> > >Burman Yan <yan_952@...mail.com> ha scritto:
> > >> I would like to hear your remarks on this version.
> > >
> > >> +static ssize_t mdps_calibrate_store(struct device *dev,
> > >> +                   struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf,
> > >size_t count)
> > >> +{
> > >> +	mdps_calibrate_mouse();
> > >> +	return count;
> > >> +}
> > >
> > >No locking here?
> >
> > I don't want to lock it here, since the mouse polling kthread is heavy 
>as
> > it is.
>
> > I'd rather report a wrong value of mouse position while recalibrating.
> > The way I see it, if you're recalibrating your mouse, chances are you're
> > not playing at the same precise millisecond. In my opinion it's worth 
>more
> > battery life.
>
>Hmm, and are you sure it can't oops or something?

Well, other than in calibrate, I use it only in one other place - the mouse 
polling kthread
(mdps_mouse_kthread). In there it's used to calculate the absolute location 
of the "mouse".
At most I will get a value that doesn not correspond to the current 
position.
This means that the mouse pointer will perhaps jump, since the x calibration 
value has
updated and y calibration has not yet.

Yan

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