From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcing PS/2 USB emulation off
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:30:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041019063057.GA3057@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018164539.GC18169@kroah.com>
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> I'm a little leary of changing the way the kernel grabs the USB hardware
> from the way we have been doing it for the past 6 years. So by
> providing the option for people who have broken machines like these, we
> will let them work properly, and it should not affect any of the zillion
> other people out there with working hardware.
>
> Or, if we can determine a specific model of hardware that really needs
> this option enabled, we can do that automatically. If you look at the
> patch, we do that for some specific IBM machines for this very reason.
>
> Is there any consistancy with the type of hardware that you see being
> reported for this issue?
Like 30% of all notebooks? ;) They do boot without the USB handoff, the
PS/2 mouse works, but only as a PS/2 mouse, no extended capabilities
detection is possible due to the BIOS interference.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-19 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-17 19:34 forcing PS/2 USB emulation off Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-17 22:57 ` Greg KH
2004-10-18 18:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-20 19:54 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-18 3:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-18 16:45 ` Greg KH
2004-10-18 18:31 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-20 19:55 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 16:45 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-19 6:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-10-19 6:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-20 4:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-20 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 6:21 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-10-21 17:53 ` Tim Hockin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-20 23:22 Aleksey Gorelov
2004-10-21 9:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 16:48 ` Alexandre Oliva
[not found] <mailman.1098042300.20451.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2004-10-21 6:26 ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-10-21 20:47 Aleksey Gorelov
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