linux-kernel - Re: Add INPUT support to toshiba

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:09:32 +0100
From:	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.hs-esslingen.de>
Cc:	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
	John Belmonte <john@...gie.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Add INPUT support to toshiba_acpi

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:46 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> HCI_EMPTY is *by far* the most frequent state to occur I think
> (users won't press keys all the time), thus it's probably better(?)
> for branch prediction to have this placed first, right?
> Not that it matters too much instruction-wise, but still...

Sure.

> Apart from that I'm very happy to see progress on this front
> (speaking as a "proud" owner of an old Toshiba notebook requiring
> this stuff).

Good - this stuff should just work :-)

> And I'd definitely move the multiple identical "Re-enabled hotkeys" parts
> into one single non-inlined(!) function for the same reason.
> Not to mention that it's BUTT UGLY to have the *same* fat
> multi-line comment duplicated bazillion times.

Agree. New patch (untested) attached.

Thanks for review,

Richard.


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