[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] x86: Fix some bugs in the i8402 driver when no controller is present

Graeme Russ graeme.russ at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 12:04:36 CET 2011


Hi Gabe,

On 15/11/11 17:18, Gabe Black wrote:
> If no controller is present, the i8402 driver should return immediately and
> not attempt to operate on the missing hardware.
> 
> In kbd_input_empty, the status register is checked every millisecond to see
> whether the input buffer is empty, up to a timeout which is tracked by
> decrimenting a counter each time the check is performed. The decrement is
> performed with a postfix -- operator, and the value of the counter is
> checked in place. That means that when the counter reaches zero and the
> loop terminates, it will actually be decrimented one more time and become
> -1. That value is returned as the return value of the function. That would
> give the right answer if it wasn't for that extra decrement because a
> timeout would indicate that the buffer never became empty.
> 
> This change fixes both of those bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Change summary tag style.
> - Rebase onto checkpatch cleaned file.
> 
>  drivers/input/i8042.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Applied to u-boot-x86/master

Thanks,

Graeme



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