From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] input: Default to only using PNP for i8042 probing on x86
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:19:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005140918160.3711@i5.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273853403-2870-3-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Ok, there's no way I'd merge this for 2.6.34 any more, but one comment:
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> Experimenting with Windows has revealed that it will not probe the
> keyboard controller unless a valid PNPACPI device is present. Change our
> behaviour to match, and add a new i8042.forcedprobe parameter to allow
> people to override it.
If you do this, then please remove the nasty __ia64__ #ifdef while at it.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 16:10 [PATCH 1/3] input: Add some extra PNP keyboard types Matthew Garrett
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] input: Add a PNP entry to the aux device list Matthew Garrett
2010-05-14 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] input: Default to only using PNP for i8042 probing on x86 Matthew Garrett
2010-05-14 16:15 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-05-14 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-05-14 16:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-14 16:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-05-14 16:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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