From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:01:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20100414160111.GB2450@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20100414123643.GB9242@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414135350.3b1643c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100414125244.GC10075@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414143550.75def636@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100414133801.GA11142@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414134321.GA11335@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100414134321.GA11335@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Jiri Kosina , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:43:21PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:40:14PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > Ask vendors, who are shipping specialized windows drivers for their mice, > > to be please so kind and always include a linux driver as well, and nuke > > all the probing logic from in-kernel driver? > > Well, in this case we know that there's a synaptics (it's in ACPIPNP) > and we know that an internal synaptics places pretty heavy constraints > on what else is going to be attached to the machine. > As in... anything? Many boxes still have external PS/2 ports that can have pretty much any type of mouse attached. Especially those HPs that have active multiplexor. -- Dmitry