Lucid/Maverick pre-stable, Input: i8042 - introduce notimeout blacklist for Dell Vostro V13

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Sat Jan 15 10:58:52 UTC 2011


Upstream backport, just affects the Dell Vostro V13 model, so looks safe
to me.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>


On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 12:41 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> The following changes since commit 87129e06f19f3d040ff6cb67e96dc242e6bef756:
>   Brad Figg (1):
>         UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.35-25.43
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-maverick.git i8042-v13-lp380126
> 
> Jiri Kosina (1):
>       Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt   |    1 +
>  drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/input/serio/i8042.c           |    6 +++++-
>  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> From 7f58f757c90fe45cabbe299cc17716b9ced0997b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:37:26 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380126
> 
> i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
> timeouts.
> 
> Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
> and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.
> 
> In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor at mail.ru>
> Backported from f8313ef1f448006207f12c107123522c8bc00f15
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt   |    1 +
>  drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/input/serio/i8042.c           |    6 +++++-
>  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index b61f89f..5d96cd9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
>  	i8042.panicblink=
>  			[HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink
>  			     when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec)
> +	i8042.notimeout	[HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by conroller
>  	i8042.reset	[HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup
>  	i8042.unlock	[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h b/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
> index 8c53926..a0730fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
> +++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h
> @@ -420,6 +420,13 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __initconst i8042_dmi_nomux_table[] = {
>  			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "0100"),
>  		},
>  	},
> +	{
> +		/* Dell Vostro V13 */
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Vostro V13"),
> +		},
> +	},
>  	{ }
>  };
>  
> @@ -541,6 +548,17 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __initconst i8042_dmi_laptop_table[] = {
>  };
>  #endif
>  
> +static const struct dmi_system_id __initconst i8042_dmi_notimeout_table[] = {
> +	{
> +		/* Dell Vostro V13 */
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Vostro V13"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{ }
> +};
> +
>  /*
>   * Some Wistron based laptops need us to explicitly enable the 'Dritek
>   * keyboard extension' to make their extra keys start generating scancodes.
> @@ -893,6 +911,9 @@ static int __init i8042_platform_init(void)
>  	if (dmi_check_system(i8042_dmi_nomux_table))
>  		i8042_nomux = true;
>  
> +	if (dmi_check_system(i8042_dmi_notimeout_table))
> +		i8042_notimeout = true;
> +
>  	if (dmi_check_system(i8042_dmi_dritek_table))
>  		i8042_dritek = true;
>  #endif /* CONFIG_X86 */
> diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
> index 5d42358..3e8a78f 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ static unsigned int i8042_blink_frequency = 500;
>  module_param_named(panicblink, i8042_blink_frequency, uint, 0600);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(panicblink, "Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink when kernel panics");
>  
> +static bool i8042_notimeout;
> +module_param_named(notimeout, i8042_notimeout, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(notimeout, "Ignore timeouts signalled by i8042");
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
>  static bool i8042_dritek;
>  module_param_named(dritek, i8042_dritek, bool, 0);
> @@ -507,7 +511,7 @@ static irqreturn_t i8042_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	} else {
>  
>  		dfl = ((str & I8042_STR_PARITY) ? SERIO_PARITY : 0) |
> -		      ((str & I8042_STR_TIMEOUT) ? SERIO_TIMEOUT : 0);
> +		      ((str & I8042_STR_TIMEOUT && !i8042_notimeout) ? SERIO_TIMEOUT : 0);
>  
>  		port_no = (str & I8042_STR_AUXDATA) ?
>  				I8042_AUX_PORT_NO : I8042_KBD_PORT_NO;
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
> 






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