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From: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable
 it
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:22 -0400
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>>
>>That's an unfortunate fix.  Is there really no way in which we
>>can auto-detect such a situation without requiring a manual
>>setting?
> 
> 
> The fact that the current detection hangs suggests that the scenario is
> possible to detect.
> 

Hm, OK.  I'll go back and look at i8042_flush() to see if I can detect this
erroneous situation automatically and fail the i8042_controller_init() if I see it.

Chris Lalancette