[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/12] dm: input: Move keyboard drivers to driver model

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 14:33:05 CET 2015


Hi Simon,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Bin,
>>
>> On 11 November 2015 at 10:05, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> This series adds a new uclass for keyboards and converts some drivers
>>> over to use it.
>>>
>>> This series includes some work to remove code duplication in the keyboard
>>> drivers by updating them to use the input library (input.c). This unifies
>>> the keycode decoding logic in one place. In order to do this some
>>> enhancements are needed to the input library and these are also included.
>>>
>>> The cros_ec and tegra_kbc drivers are converted to use driver model.
>>>
>>> The i8042 driver is converted also, after various tidy-ups. The driver has
>>> some strange interactions with the cfb_console driver. This is removed in
>>> this series which is possible because the only user is x86. Some i8042
>>> features have been dropped (the only deliberate one is the flashing cursor
>>> which does not seem to be used by any board).
>>>
>>> Also the i8042 driver currently has its own keycode-decoding logic. This
>>> series removes it in favour of the input library. Therefore testing of this
>>> new driver would be appreciated. So far I have only been able to test on
>>> link, which does not have a full keyboard. Also, while German keyboard
>>> support is implemented, I am unable to test that either.
>>>
>>> These changes can be considered the first step towards moving stdio to
>>> driver model. For that to be useful we need to convert LCD and video also.
>>>
>>> Note: This series is missing the code to call the update_leds() method when
>>> the LEDs change. This needs to be added to keyboard_tstc() and
>>> keyboard_getc(). If someone is able to test this I can send a patch for that
>>> also.
>>>
>>> This series is available at u-boot-dm branch input-working.
>>
>> Can you please try testing this for your crash when pressing 'caps
>> lock'? I'm not sure what is going on there and I don't have hardware
>> to test with.
>
> I've tested the v3 patch. Looks the behavior is the same as v2. Note
> the crash when pressing 'caps lock' only happens in v1. Starting from
> v2, pressing 'caps lock' does not light the LED, and the characters
> typed is still lower case. This is the same as the 'num lock' as I
> reported before.
>

I've spent some time to debug this today, and have fixed all of these
issues I reported so far. Please check my patch series @
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/543339/

Regards,
Bin


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