linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6

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Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 19:49:31 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:47:43AM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:

> yes, everything has USB ports, so they could use USB keyboards, but it's  
> actually pretty common to still use PS/2 keyboards (and while the systems 
> all support USB, it's not uncommon to have KVM systems, including pretty  
> expensive 'enterprise' KVM systems that still require PS/2 keyboards be  
> used to plug into the KVM, so those are the keyboards that are in the  
> datacenter that someone will grab to plug into a problem machine)

The server hardware I've looked at will all declare the ports regardless 
of whether or not there's something plugged in.

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