On Maw, 2005-03-22 at 07:44, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > 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.
I'm not opposed to that. The only real constraint to avoid the majority of problem boxes I've seen is that the handoff is done with a timeout and we continue in BIOS mode if the handoff fails. The ACPI updates for VIA also seem to have cured some boxes that die with USB enabled. Alan - 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/