Subject: Re: Abstracting pckbc(4)
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/02/2004 02:56:48
Hot plug doesn't work (as far as I know), but you should design the
extra abstraction so it could.  Just make sure to propagate the
detach and activate calls that (presumably) comes from the controller.

	-- Lennart


Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <20040201171116.GB589@apb.cequrux.com> you write:
> 
>>On Sun, 01 Feb 2004, Ben Harris wrote:
>>
>>>What have I got wrong or forgotten?
>>
>>You didn't mention support for hot pluggable keyboards and mice.  For
>>example, if you boot a machine without a keyboard, and plug a keyboard
>>in later, it would be nice if it worked.
> 
> 
> Does it work at the moment with pckbc?  If not, I don't plan to add support
> for it, since my intention is merely to provide an abstraction to allow for
> the replacement of the lower layer of the current pckbc driver, rather than
> to add any other new features.  If hot-plugging does currently work with
> pckbc, is there anything you think I particularly need to be aware of when
> designing my abstraction?
>