Re: Input - Make i8042.c less picky about AUX ports [1/3]

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 02:36:31 EST


On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:23:40AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > ChangeSet@1.597.3.1, 2002-10-08 17:36:32+02:00, vojtech@suse.cz
> > Make i8042.c even less picky about detecting an AUX port because of
> > broken chipsets that don't support the LOOP command or report failure
> > on the TEST command. Hopefully this won't screw any old 386/486
> > systems without the AUX port.
>
> would it make sense to at least printk() on such
> broken chipsets?

Maybe. But if we wanted to printk() on every chipset which doesn't
follow the i8042 spec in some way, we'd keep the logs full ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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