[PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 25 16:22:28 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:28 -0400, Alan Curry wrote:
> As of 2.6.22 the kernel doesn't recognize the i8042 keyboard/mouse controller
> on the PegasosPPC. This is because of a feature/bug in the OF device tree:
> the "device_type" attribute is an empty string instead of "8042" as the
> kernel expects. This patch (against 2.6.22.1) adds a secondary detection
> which looks for a device whose *name* is "8042" if there is no device whose
> *type* is "8042".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Curry <pacman at world.std.com>

Doesn't it have something in "compatible" instead ? that would be the
way to go.

Ben.





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