Re: [PATCH 3/3] input: Default to only using PNP for i8042 probingon x86

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 12:21:44 EST



Ok, there's no way I'd merge this for 2.6.34 any more, but one comment:

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> Experimenting with Windows has revealed that it will not probe the
> keyboard controller unless a valid PNPACPI device is present. Change our
> behaviour to match, and add a new i8042.forcedprobe parameter to allow
> people to override it.

If you do this, then please remove the nasty __ia64__ #ifdef while at it.

Linus
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