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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:42:00 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:47:48PM +0800, Li, Yan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:34:46PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:16:13PM +0800, Yan Li wrote:
> > > When testing Moblin on various netbooks, we've got reports that many
> > > MSI Wind clones need the i8042 reset quirks for the keyboard and/or
> > > touchpad's proper function.
> > 
> > Why are we not doing this unconditionally?
> 
> For the majority of sane machines this is not necessary.

So? If the alternative is machines that don't work until they're added 
to a blacklist, then the correct thing to do is to do it 
unconditionally.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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