From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"linux-input@vger.kernel.org" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:51:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090617025101.GA27595@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617010138.GA13479@thyme.bj.intel.com>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:01:40AM +0800, Li, Yan I wrote:
> This seems a change too aggressive for me. Do we have a good reason
> for taking this risk?
It's generally much easier to find regressions (people complain) than it
is to find things that have never worked (people just assume Linux is
broken).
> Of course if we found the "actual problem" we'd conjure up a better
> fix. But before that, I'd prefer the conservative way.
Does stock Windows work on the machine? I think this really ought to be
a pretty obvious minimal test before adding quirks to the kernel.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 14:16 [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks Yan Li
2009-06-15 14:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-15 14:47 ` Li, Yan
2009-06-16 15:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-16 16:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-16 16:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-16 17:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-16 17:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-17 1:01 ` Li, Yan I
2009-06-17 2:51 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-06-18 0:08 ` Li, Yan
2009-06-18 15:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-19 7:16 ` Li, Yan I
2009-06-19 12:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-06-22 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
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