Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268025AbUJSGbT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:31:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268037AbUJSGbT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:31:19 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:16516 "EHLO midnight.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268025AbUJSGbQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:31:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:30:57 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Greg KH Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Alexandre Oliva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: forcing PS/2 USB emulation off Message-ID: <20041019063057.GA3057@ucw.cz> References: <200410172248.16571.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20041018164539.GC18169@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041018164539.GC18169@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 27 On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > I'm a little leary of changing the way the kernel grabs the USB hardware > from the way we have been doing it for the past 6 years. So by > providing the option for people who have broken machines like these, we > will let them work properly, and it should not affect any of the zillion > other people out there with working hardware. > > Or, if we can determine a specific model of hardware that really needs > this option enabled, we can do that automatically. If you look at the > patch, we do that for some specific IBM machines for this very reason. > > Is there any consistancy with the type of hardware that you see being > reported for this issue? Like 30% of all notebooks? ;) They do boot without the USB handoff, the PS/2 mouse works, but only as a PS/2 mouse, no extended capabilities detection is possible due to the BIOS interference. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - 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/