From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Disable i8042 check on Apple machines Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:35:19 -0800 Message-ID: <20131217163519.GA16989@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:40074 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752800Ab3LQQfX (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:35:23 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id hz1so4672577pad.12 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:35:22 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Boyer Cc: Bastien Nocera , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:25:36AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > Hi Bastien and Dmitry, > > I was going through some of the patches we're carrying in Fedora and > came across this one that Bastien submitted a long time ago: > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1005.0/00938.html > > It works and we're still carrying it, but Dmitry said it needed to be > done differently in i8042-x86ia64io.h. Would that just mean adding a > DMI for Apple machines to the i8042_dmi_nopnp_table struct? Or > exactly what should be done here? That is one possible option that I had in mind originally. Another would be to modify arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c::default_x86_detect() and add the check there. Thanks. -- Dmitry