From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:28:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20100514162858.GA31607@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100514145539.GA5598@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:61450 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752743Ab0ENQ3P (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 12:29:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Garrett , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:16:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will > > *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an > > appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f. > > Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it > > their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's > > probably another story. > > Well, I'd hate to lose the keyboard hotplug capability, but at the same > time, it _is_ 2010, and while I have personally used it historically, I > don't really foresee ever using it again. > FWIW we also using active multiplexing while windows does not as far as I know. I'd like us to be better than them. > So we _could_ decide to just try it, and see if anybody screams. If nobody > does, that would be a very simple solution to the problem. > > Linus -- Dmitry