On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:05:22 -0400 Chris Lalancette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I tried to send this patch to linux-input@, but it seems to be currently > having > some problems, so I'm going directly to LKML). > > Certain (broken) pieces of South Bridge hardware will respond to > i8042_read_status() on boot with 0x0, despite there not being a real i8042 > controller hooked up in the south bridge. This can cause the detection for > the > i8042 to return a "phantom" device, which hangs up later initialization. Note > that using "i8042.nokbd" and/or "i8042.noaux" do not help with this, since > this > shows up during i8042_controller_check() (before either of those options are > checked). This patch adds a command-line option "i8042.disable", which just > completely disables any checking for the i8042 controller. That's an unfortunate fix. Is there really no way in which we can auto-detect such a situation without requiring a manual setting?
