@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ module_param_named(unmask_kbd_data, i8042_unmask_kbd_data, bool, 0600);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(unmask_kbd_data, "Unconditional enable (may reveal sensitive data) of normally sanitize-filtered kbd data traffic debug log [pre-condition: i8042.debug=1 enabled]");
#endif
+static bool i8042_present;
static bool i8042_bypass_aux_irq_test;
static char i8042_kbd_firmware_id[128];
static char i8042_aux_firmware_id[128];
@@ -343,6 +344,9 @@ int i8042_command(unsigned char *param, int command)
unsigned long flags;
int retval;
+ if (!i8042_present)
+ return -1;
+
spin_lock_irqsave(&i8042_lock, flags);
retval = __i8042_command(param, command);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8042_lock, flags);
@@ -1612,12 +1616,15 @@ static int __init i8042_init(void)
err = i8042_platform_init();
if (err)
- return err;
+ return (err == -ENODEV) ? 0 : err;
err = i8042_controller_check();
if (err)
goto err_platform_exit;
+ /* Set this before creating the dev to allow i8042_command to work right away */
+ i8042_present = true;
+
pdev = platform_create_bundle(&i8042_driver, i8042_probe, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
if (IS_ERR(pdev)) {
err = PTR_ERR(pdev);
@@ -1636,6 +1643,9 @@ static int __init i8042_init(void)
static void __exit i8042_exit(void)
{
+ if (!i8042_present)
+ return;
+
platform_device_unregister(i8042_platform_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&i8042_driver);
i8042_platform_exit();
The i8042 module exports several symbols which may be used by other modules. Before this commit it would refuse to load (when built as a module itself) on systems without an i8042 controller. This is a problem specifically for the asus-nb-wmi module. Many Asus laptops support the Asus WMI interface. Some of them have an i8042 controller and need to use i8042_install_filter() to filter some kbd events. Other models do not have an i8042 controller (e.g. they use an USB attached kbd). Before this commit the asus-nb-wmi driver could not be loaded on Asus models without an i8042 controller, when the i8042 code was built as a module (as Arch Linux does) because the module_init function of the i8042 module would fail with -ENODEV and thus the i8042_install_filter symbol could not be loaded. This commit fixes this by exiting from module_init with a return code of 0 if no controller is found. It also adds a i8042_present bool to make the module_exit function a no-op in this case and also adds a check for i8042_present to the exported i8042_command function. The latter i8042_present check should not really be necessary because when builtin that function can already be used on systems without an i8042 controller, but better safe then sorry. Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Iacob <themariusus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> --- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)