Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:01:40AM +0800, Li, Yan I wrote:

> This seems a change too aggressive for me. Do we have a good reason
> for taking this risk? 

It's generally much easier to find regressions (people complain) than it 
is to find things that have never worked (people just assume Linux is 
broken).

> Of course if we found the "actual problem" we'd conjure up a better 
> fix. But before that, I'd prefer the conservative way.

Does stock Windows work on the machine? I think this really ought to be 
a pretty obvious minimal test before adding quirks to the kernel.

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