From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:38:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20100514153842.GA6398@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513160117.GB22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513171639.GA23708@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513181002.GB23708@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:54:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But the issue here is that on a "legacy PC", we can't just say "ACPI > doesn't mention this device, so it can't exist". Because in a legacy PC > model, that simply isn't true. All those motherboard devices can easily > exist (and do!) even if ACPI/PnP don't mention them. I think that's true except in the case where the Leading Other OS won't use a device unless it's present in ACPI - that kind of enforcement tends to concentrate vendors' minds, even if they'd otherwise be busy filling data tables with garbage. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org