linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks

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Message-ID: <20090616164351.GA14353@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:43:51 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, greg@...ah.com, yan.i.li@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I would disagree: that breaks a whole pile of other machines

I was under the impression that this was the reset path that Windows 
followed. If not then that suggests that we're fixing it wrong in the 
first place?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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