Re: 2.6.5: keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> > > They only appear at boot time for me (just once of course). Maybe 
> > > your keyboard was disconnected or kernel was thinking that it was 
> > > disconnected and connected again?...
> > 
> > Nope. It's a laptop!
> 
> Ok, so it was connected (but it can still have not full electrical 
> contact...).

Rather unlikely, since thi snever happens with 2.4.x

> But kernel (because of some bug) can think it was reconnected and 
> initialize the driver second time making kb unusable... Can't it?

Absolutely. This whole serio stuff causes nothing but grief.

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