linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1004141538490.8345@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:40:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > I think in this case you are in cloud cuckoo land. Windows doesn't 
> > autoprobe all these mouse types, and some years of careful 
> > experimentation seems to indicate the best you can do is select which 
> > devices break without blacklists.
> 
> Blacklists which have to vary based on BIOS version? It's pretty obvious 
> that this doesn't scale.

... and your proposal is?

Ask vendors, who are shipping specialized windows drivers for their mice, 
to be please so kind and always include a linux driver as well, and nuke 
all the probing logic from in-kernel driver?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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