From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] input: introduce a tougher i8042.reset Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:52:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20090205135229.e4d5efc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090204191540.2d6abd87@infradead.org> <20090204191631.21783c62@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57702 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098AbZBEVww (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:52:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090204191631.21783c62@infradead.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:16:31 -0800 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Some touchpads don't reset right the first time (MSI Wind U-100 for > example). This patch will retry the reset up to 5 times. Sigh, real life sucks. I wonder what the windows driver does. > In addition, this patch also adds a module parameter to not treat > reset failures as fatal to the usage of the device. This prevents > a touchpad failure from also disabling the keyboard.... > Is there any reason why we shouldn't just do this all the time? IOW, is there any benefit in marking the 8042 as dead?