From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
mjt@tls.msk.ru,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mouse&keyboard with 2.6.10+
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:56:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111499816.14833.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050322074435.GC3360@ucw.cz>
On Maw, 2005-03-22 at 07:44, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Not yet. There was opposition from Alan Cox, who said that it crashes
> some machines hard. On the other hand, that is a BIOS interaction bug
> that most likely can be fixed and is very rare. I'd prefer a
> 'usb-no-handoff' switch for these machines.
I'm not opposed to that. The only real constraint to avoid the majority
of problem boxes I've seen is that the handoff is done with a timeout
and we continue in BIOS mode if the handoff fails.
The ACPI updates for VIA also seem to have cured some boxes that die
with USB enabled.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 10:32 mouse&keyboard with 2.6.10+ Michael Tokarev
2005-03-14 11:52 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-14 14:28 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-14 15:53 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-14 16:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-14 16:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-14 16:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-14 19:06 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-14 19:21 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-22 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 7:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-22 13:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-03-14 16:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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