Re: [PATCH] Enable A20 using KBC for some MSI laptops to fix S3 resume

[Robert Hancock]

On 10/24/2012 02:09 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:36:04 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Minor concern: it should do the wait for ready before sending each command.
>
> Can we get a command line to do this quirk too - it strikes me that if
> the MSIs rely upon it then it may be something Windows always does so
> will be useful to try on other problem machines as an experiment.

I agree, one has to keep in mind the age-old question "how does Windows 
work?" since it surely has no such quirk. I'd say we're sometimes too 
quick to add these DMI quirks when a more general solution would be 
somehow figure out how the Linux behavior differs from what Windows is 
doing.

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