Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will 
> *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an 
> appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f. 
> Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it 
> their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's 
> probably another story.

Well, I'd hate to lose the keyboard hotplug capability, but at the same 
time, it _is_ 2010, and while I have personally used it historically, I 
don't really foresee ever using it again.

So we _could_ decide to just try it, and see if anybody screams. If nobody 
does, that would be a very simple solution to the problem.

			Linus
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