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

[Jiri Kosina]

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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