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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:28:59 -0700
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:16:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> > I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will 
> > *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an 
> > appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f. 
> > Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it 
> > their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's 
> > probably another story.
> 
> Well, I'd hate to lose the keyboard hotplug capability, but at the same 
> time, it _is_ 2010, and while I have personally used it historically, I 
> don't really foresee ever using it again.
> 

FWIW we also using active multiplexing while windows does not as far as
I know. I'd like us to be better than them.

> So we _could_ decide to just try it, and see if anybody screams. If nobody 
> does, that would be a very simple solution to the problem.
> 
> 			Linus

-- 
Dmitry