On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:24:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Any chance the order of module loading changed between the two versions? > > I see you have 'psmouse' as a module. If i8042 (and psmouse) are loaded > > after uhci-hcd (or ohci-hcd), the problem will disappear, too. > > > > > So is this a bios/mobo problem, > > > > Yes. > > > > > or can it be solved in kernel somehow? > > > > We could have usb-handoff by default. > > Did we decide to do that? If so, will it be in 2.6.12?
Not yet. There was opposition from Alan Cox, who said that it crashes some machines hard. On the other hand, that is a BIOS interaction bug that most likely can be fixed and is very rare. I'd prefer a 'usb-no-handoff' switch for these machines. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
