Re: [PATCH] input: fix aux port detection with some i8042 chips

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 23:19:43 EST


On Thursday 03 May 2007 19:38, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> From: Roland Scheidegger <sroland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The i8042 driver fails detection of the AUX port with some chips,
> because they apparently do not change the I8042_CTR_AUXDIS bit
> immediately. This is known to affect at least HP500 / HP510 notebooks,
> consequently the built-in touchpad will not work. The patch will simply
> reread the value until it gets the expected value or a retry limit is
> hit, without touching other workaround code in the same area.
>

Applied with some rearrangements, thank you.

--
Dmitry
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