From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755576Ab0DNNiI (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:38:08 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:48046 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752274Ab0DNNiG (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:38:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:38:01 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cox Cc: Jiri Kosina , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table Message-ID: <20100414133801.GA11142@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100414123643.GB9242@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414135350.3b1643c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100414125244.GC10075@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414143550.75def636@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100414143550.75def636@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:35:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > I think in this case you are in cloud cuckoo land. Windows doesn't > autoprobe all these mouse types, and some years of careful > experimentation seems to indicate the best you can do is select which > devices break without blacklists. Blacklists which have to vary based on BIOS version? It's pretty obvious that this doesn't scale. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org