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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 12:36:15 EST


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:29:52AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:55:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will
> > *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an
> > appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f.
> > Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it
> > their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's
> > probably another story.
> >
> > However, I did find a couple of device IDs that machines may produce
> > which we don't currently check for. I'll send a patch.
> >
>
> I was wondering if we should be matching for _CID instead of _HID for
> mouse and keyboard.

I'm pretty sure the PNP layer will bind to either _HID or _CID.

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