From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759409AbXGYNfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760136AbXGYNfb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53770 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757275AbXGYNfa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:30 -0400 Message-ID: <46A7519A.20108@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:22 -0400 From: Chris Lalancette User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it References: <46A4DFD2.2010501@redhat.com> <20070725000504.f8ce49c1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070725080355.GA14726@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070725080355.GA14726@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> >>That's an unfortunate fix. Is there really no way in which we >>can auto-detect such a situation without requiring a manual >>setting? > > > The fact that the current detection hangs suggests that the scenario is > possible to detect. > Hm, OK. I'll go back and look at i8042_flush() to see if I can detect this erroneous situation automatically and fail the i8042_controller_init() if I see it. Chris Lalancette