Hi!
> > > 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 ...
If you keep it one line per bug, it should not be more than 2 lines on
normal chipsets, right? :-). And we may get better hardware in future
by doing this.
Pavel
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