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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:31:59AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:10:03PM -0400, 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.
> > 
> 
> i8042.nopnp would not do?

It could - it wouldn't be quite semantically equivalent, but I don't see 
why it wouldn't work.

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