Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932420AbWACUws (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:52:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932479AbWACUws (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:52:48 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:34236 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932420AbWACUwr (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:52:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:52:45 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: dtor_core@ameritech.net cc: Pete Zaitcev , , , Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usb: replace __setup("nousb") with __module_param_call In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 25 On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 1/3/06, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > usb-handoff no longer exists. The kernel now takes USB host controllers > > away from the BIOS as soon as they are discovered. > > > > Yes! YES! YEEEEES! > > *Dmitry dances and rejoices* It may not be totally advantageous. Sometimes people have trouble with system installs, when for some reason the USB HID driver doesn't work. If you've got a USB keyboard now you're pretty well stuck, whereas in the past you could specify "nousb" and the BIOS would continue to drive the keyboard. Alan Stern - 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/