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

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 12:30:12 EST


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:55:39PM +0100, 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.
>
> However, I did find a couple of device IDs that machines may produce
> which we don't currently check for. I'll send a patch.
>

I was wondering if we should be matching for _CID instead of _HID for
mouse and keyboard.

--
Dmitry
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