Hi Raghu,
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:01:54AM -0800, Raghu Gandham wrote:
> The standard IO regions are already reserved by the platform code on most MIPS
> devices(malta, cobalt, sni). The Commit 197a1e96c8be5b6005145af3a4c0e45e2d651444
> ("Input: i8042-io - fix up region handling on MIPS") introduced a bug on these
> MIPS platforms causing i8042 driver to fail when trying to reserve IO ports.
> Prior to the above mentioned commit request_region is skipped on MIPS but
> release_region is called.
>
> This patch reverts commit 197a1e96c8be5b6005145af3a4c0e45e2d651444 and also
> avoids calling release_region for MIPS.
The problem is that IO regions are reserved on _most_, but not _all_
devices. MIPS should figure out what they want to do with i8042
registers and be consistent on all devices.
I do not want to apply this patch because it will be breaking devices
using the other configuration.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
