On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 10:31:12PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:15:49 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And the bad thing is that violates multiple layers in the kernel. > > Atkbd driver does not have to be using i8042; neither does psmouse. > > Althtough they do in 99% of the cases there are other controllers > > providing the i8042-style ports. Just grep for SERIO_8042 in > > drivers/input/serio. > > > > I do not want to hard-code the i8042-psmouse-atkbd dependency. > > it's not a specific dependency. > > it's a "I know I'm critical, so everything before me needs to be done". > > that doesn't encode an actual relationship, it encodes a potential > relationship... with a worst case behavior of ... what we do right > now ;_) This is the case with every parent device, isn't it? It is important for its children. And wasn't Rafael patchset trying to address exactkly this? -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
