From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513160117.GB22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4BFE0FAB.9040009@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 May 2010, Robert Hancock wrote: > > It's highly unlikely that they are incomplete in this respect, as > since I mentioned, Windows would fail to recognize the PS/2 controller > that people would expect to work, which would most likely get > noticed.. Did you miss the part where I actually quoted my own modern Core i5 machine that _does_ have a keyboard controller, and _does_ have a keyboard port, and that does _not_ mention them in the PnP tables? > I think this is a case where it has to be trusted, because that's what > Windows does. The thing is, Windows isn't used for things like headless machines. Which we went over extensively in the thread. There's a _reason_ why Linux probes the dang thing. Linus