Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161294AbXBGWb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:31:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161466AbXBGWb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:31:59 -0500 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:36512 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161294AbXBGWb6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:31:58 -0500 Message-ID: <45CA535D.1080700@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:31:57 -0800 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix References: <200702060353.l163rUmj000771@zach-dev.vmware.com> <20070206122729.GC47229@muc.de> <45C8FA2D.6010706@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 17 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I am confused - does i8042 talk to a virtual or real hardware here? In > any case I think you need to fix kernel/panic.c to have proper > (m)delay, not mess with i8042. I think I need to fix both of them actually. This is virtual hardware, but when you grab focus on a VM, the virtual hardware gets reflected to the actual physical keyboard. Driving physical hardware that fast is bad. Zach - 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/