linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i8042: Don't print an error message just because there's no chip

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Date:	Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:53:56 -0400
From:	Adam Jackson <ajax@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i8042: Don't print an error message just because
 there's no chip

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 11:06 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@...hat.com> wrote:
> > From: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
> >
> > Some systems, such as EFI-based Apple systems, won't necessarily have an
> > i8042 to initialize. We shouldn't be printing an error message in this
> > case, since not detecting the chip is the correct behavior.
> >
> > v2: Downgrade to pr_notice instead of pr_err.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@...hat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by:  Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>

Ping?  This patch or something like it has been pending since 2008 [1],
would be nice to see it merged before it's old enough to start first
grade.

[1] - https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/248

- ajax

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