From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] input: Default to only using PNP for i8042 probing on x86 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:36:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20100514163643.GB7843@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1273853403-2870-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <1273853403-2870-3-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <20100514163158.GC31607@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:47861 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755985Ab0ENQgt (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 12:36:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100514163158.GC31607@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:31:59AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:10:03PM -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Experimenting with Windows has revealed that it will not probe the > > keyboard controller unless a valid PNPACPI device is present. Change our > > behaviour to match, and add a new i8042.forcedprobe parameter to allow > > people to override it. > > > > i8042.nopnp would not do? It could - it wouldn't be quite semantically equivalent, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org