Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264694AbUDVWA4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:00:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264702AbUDVWAz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:00:55 -0400 Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.212]:2319 "EHLO ptb-relay01.plus.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264694AbUDVWAy (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:00:54 -0400 Message-ID: <40884165.5030407@mauve.plus.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:04:21 +0100 From: Ian Stirling User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Horst von Brand , Kim Holviala , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] psmouse: fix mouse hotplugging References: <200404221546.i3MFka6w004059@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1106 Lines: 28 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Horst von Brand wrote: > > >>>This patch fixes hotplugging of PS/2 devices on hardware which don't >>>support hotplugging of PS/2 devices. In other words, most desktop >> >>machines. >> >>I have seen "hoplugging of mice" fry PS/2 ports, and heard of motherboards >>killed that way. > > > For older systems, a fuse would often blow on these ports, which > depending on the implementation would require a power cycle or a soldering > iron. Then one of those PCxx specs from Microsoft required the PS/2 ports > to support hot-plugging, so chances are it may pretty safe with recent > equipment. Even for relatively newer kit, wierd stuff can happen. I recall one keyboard/athlon 500 system that would reboot 10s after the keyboard was plugged in, about 1% of the time. Probably a KBC code bug, but unfixable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/