linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] toshiba_acpi: Cleanup and TOS1900 device support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20111026135432.GA31917@thinkpad-t410>
Date:	Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:54:32 -0500
From:	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@...il.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] toshiba_acpi: Cleanup and TOS1900 device support

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:10:44AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:31:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:55:48PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > > Hi Matthew,
> > > 
> > > Please consider merging the following patches. They represent a
> > > signficant cleanup of toshiba_acpi as well as adding support for SPFC as
> > > an HCI method. The latter provides basic but functional support for the
> > > TOS1900 devices found on newer Toshiba models, which will serve as a
> > > good starting point for further enhancements. I've tried to leave the
> > > details of the hardware interaction unchanged to reduce the risk of
> > > regression for machines already supported by the driver.
> > 
> > Great. Has this been tested on any older hardware? I'd think that the 
> > risk of regression is pretty low, but it'd be a nice sanity check. I've 
> > only got one TOS1800 type around here, and it's a 1.2GHz Pentium M, so 
> > I'd prefer to have got someone else to do it :)
> 
> No, I don't have any older hardware to test on, and I'm pretty sure
> Azael doesn't either. Not that I want to afflict any additional pain
> beyond what you already have from dealing with firmware all day ;)

I managed to find some volunteers with machines that use the GHCI
interface to do some regression testing for me. They aren't exactly
older hardware, all of them with TOS6208 and being made within the last
2 or 3 years. But it's the best I could do.

None of the machines tested showed any regressions as a result of these
patches. I also got testing of using the INFO method to read hotkey
scancodes, and that's working on those machines as well. (I did however
find that I had to reintroduce the global toshiba_acpi pointer for the
i8042 filter, since it doesn't have any mechanism for passing private
data to the callback.)

Any chance of seeing these patches in 3.2?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/