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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:51:01 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "greg@...ah.com" <greg@...ah.com>, yanli@...radead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] More i8042-reset quirks for MSI Wind-clone netbooks On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:01:40AM +0800, Li, Yan I wrote: > This seems a change too aggressive for me. Do we have a good reason > for taking this risk? It's generally much easier to find regressions (people complain) than it is to find things that have never worked (people just assume Linux is broken). > Of course if we found the "actual problem" we'd conjure up a better > fix. But before that, I'd prefer the conservative way. Does stock Windows work on the machine? I think this really ought to be a pretty obvious minimal test before adding quirks to the kernel. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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