[PATCH] usb: kbd: allow probing even if usbkbd not in stdin

[Marek Vasut]

On 6/27/22 12:03, Köry Maincent wrote:
> Hello Marek,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:12:31 +0200
> Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/22/22 10:59, kory.maincent at bootlin.com wrote:
>>> From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent at bootlin.com>
>>>
>>> For now the driver does not probe if usbkbd was not present in stdin.
>>> This presents two issues, we can not probe the driver before setting stdin
>>
>> Environment should be up and running before USB, so this is likely not a
>> problem.
> 
> Having a driver probing only in this specific state is weird?
> It should probe whatever the state of stdin.
> 
>>
>>> and we can not use this driver in other manner than stdin console.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes this by adding an else statement. It simply probes the
>>> driver without console management in the case "usbkbd" is not in stdin.
>>
>> Can you document the usecase in a bit more detail ?
> 
> My usecase is to get a key press from the USB keyboard and do some thing about
> it in board_init. I do not want to multiplex the keyboard input to stdin but I
> still want to read character from it.

All right, understood, both. Thanks for clarification.

I applied this to usb/next , I hope that's OK ?