Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

2007-07-25 Thread Chris Lalancette
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> >>That's an unfortunate fix. Is there really no way in which we >>can auto-detect such a situation without requiring a manual >>setting? > > > The fact that the current detection hangs suggests that the scenario is > possible to detect. > Hm, OK. I'll go back and look

Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

2007-07-25 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:05:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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). > > > > Ce

Re: [PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

2007-07-25 Thread Andrew Morton
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_s

[PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Lalancette
(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 so