On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:02:08 -0800 > David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alan Stern wrote: > > > Can anyone answer the question in the Subject: line? Is it just an > > > historical relic? > > > > Dave Miller added them a while back, so that (as I recall) > > some SPARC keyboard handling would work correctly. If you > > don't find the BK history for that change to be illuminating, > > perhaps he can provide a more complete answer. > > It's for USB keyboard handling of the CPU register dumping keystrokes.
The UHCI driver does quite a lot of work at interrupt time. I'm considering moving most of it to a bottom-half handler, but the need to preserve the pt_regs information makes that difficult. What is your advice? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
