Subject: Re: mouse&keyboard with 2.6.10+
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, mjt@tls.msk.ru,
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On Maw, 2005-03-22 at 07:44, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Not yet. There was opposition from Alan Cox, who said that it crashes
> some machines hard. On the other hand, that is a BIOS interaction bug
> that most likely can be fixed and is very rare. I'd prefer a
> 'usb-no-handoff' switch for these machines.

I'm not opposed to that. The only real constraint to avoid the majority
of problem boxes I've seen is that the handoff is done with a timeout
and we continue in BIOS mode if the handoff fails.

The ACPI updates for VIA also seem to have cured some boxes that die
with USB enabled.

Alan

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