Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 07:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > Bastien Nocera (1):
> >       Input: i8042 - do not try to probe ports on Intel Apple Macs
> 
> I pulled, but I skipped the last commit, because I think this one is 
> fundamentally _wrong_.
> 
> It is _not_ maintainable to create random tables of exceptions ("DMI 
> tables"), and it's actively _wrong_ to do for something like this where we 
> not only have historically worked perfectly well, and this apparently 
> tries to hide some other bug (the commit says "could potentially lock 
> up/hang/wait for timeout for long periods of time").
<snip>
> So if somebody saw "could potentially lock up/hang/wait" issues, then 
> dangit, say what those issues are, AND LET'S FIX THEM! And not like this, 
> trying to hide them for some particular machines, rather than fixing the 
> actual underlying detection bug.

I'm waiting for your debug instructions on that one, because we already
looked at that with Dmitry.

I already got that patch in my distribution, and now my machine boots up
uninterrupted. The lock is somewhat random, and will go away as soon as
I press the power button on my machine.

Maybe you didn't update to the latest firmwares on you Mac Mini, and
didn't see the problem with the updated BIOSes, I don't know.