linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

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Message-ID: <46A7519A.20108@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:22 -0400
From:	Chris Lalancette <clalance@...hat.com>
To:	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable
 it

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>>
>>That's an unfortunate fix.  Is there really no way in which we
>>can auto-detect such a situation without requiring a manual
>>setting?
> 
> 
> The fact that the current detection hangs suggests that the scenario is
> possible to detect.
> 

Hm, OK.  I'll go back and look at i8042_flush() to see if I can detect this
erroneous situation automatically and fail the i8042_controller_init() if I see it.

Chris Lalancette
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