Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks

["Li, Yan I" <yan.i.li@intel.com>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:17:32AM +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> So the touchpad on these machines doesn't work with generic Windows? I'm 
> interested in the specifics, not general issues with i8042 
> implementations. We've repeatedly seen that these quirk tables end up 
> inadequately comprehensive and in several cases have masked the actual 
> problem.

Now we have more than 99% machines work well with current i8042 code
path, and less than 1% of machines (those MSI Wind & clones) that
don't work unless being added to this list.

If we do multiple-resetting unconditionally (for all machines), we are
effectively:
1. fixing things that works well
2. make >99% machines (the good citizens) untested

This seems a change too aggressive for me. Do we have a good reason
for taking this risk? 

Of course if we found the "actual problem" we'd conjure up a better
fix. But before that, I'd prefer the conservative way.

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Li, Yan

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