Re: i8042 access timings

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:46 +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:17:33PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Still, I wonder if implementing these delays will give IO controller
> > better chances to react to our queries and will get rid of some
> > failures.
> 
> My objection is this: by doing this you create myths that may
> be difficult to dispel later. I recall other situations where
> there were superfluous restrictions and I had a hard time convincing
> others of the fact that the tests weren't there for any good reason,
> that there was no single instance of hardware on earth known to
> work better with the added restrictions.

Seems like a comment along the lines of "foo hardware doesn't work right
unless we delay a bit here" is the obvious solution.  Then someone can
easily disprove it later.

Lee