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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:59:27 -0800
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/28] kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:13:03AM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> > 
> > Sorry for not responding earlier.
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:21:19PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> >> +++ b/drivers/char/kdb_keyboard.c
> > 
> > Does it have to live here? If you are going for completely separate
> > driver maybe it should be buried somewhere like xxx/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c
> > so nobody needs to look at it?
> 
> 
> I think in the long run we could consider integration with the primary
> keyboard driver via a polling hook.  I am happy to move the driver off
> into kernel/debug/kdb with the other kdb related files until that
> happens.
> 
> The original logic for putting next to the keyboard.c was because they
> are both fighting for the same HW.  Please let me know if this changes
> your mind, else I will go ahead and move the keyboard implementation
> into the kernel/debug/kdb.
> 

It does not behause in 2.6 the driver talking to the i8042 is called
i8042.c and it is located in drivers/input/serio.
drivers/char/keyboard.c does not talk directly to hardware anymore and
pc_keyb.c is long gone.

Given the fact that your code does not implement a character device I do
not see any reason for it to live in drivers/char.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry