Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933760AbXHFSqt (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758466AbXHFSqh (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:46:37 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:40823 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758530AbXHFSqh (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:46:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200708020440.l724edCT290676@shell01.TheWorld.com> References: <200708020440.l724edCT290676@shell01.TheWorld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: matt@genesi-usa.com (Matt Sealey), linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:45:52 +0200 To: Alan Curry X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 19 >> You don't need to patch Linux at all. In fact for silly things like >> this >> I would recommend against it :) > > If the workaround doesn't go into the kernel, everybody with affected > hardware has to individually find out about the bug (probably by > experiencing > an annoying keyboardless boot) and fix it himself. That's one of the reasons why this should go into a bootwrapper. Segher - 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/