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

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On May 27, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > It's highly unlikely that they are incomplete in this respect, as
> > since I mentioned, Windows would fail to recognize the PS/2  
> > controller
> > that people would expect to work, which would most likely get
> > noticed..
>
> Did you miss the part where I actually quoted my own modern Core i5
> machine that _does_ have a keyboard controller, and _does_ have a  
> keyboard
> port, and that does _not_ mention them in the PnP tables?

Except that it _does_. But _our_ ACPI implementation drops all  
inactive devices so our PNP layer does not see your mouse and keyboard  
ports.


> > I think this is a case where it has to be trusted, because that's  
> > what
> > Windows does.
>
> The thing is, Windows isn't used for things like headless machines.  
> Which
> we went over extensively in the thread. There's a _reason_ why Linux
> probes the dang thing.


--
Dmitry


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