On Tuesday 16 October 2007 16:52:17 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 October 2007 15:37:37 you wrote:
> > > I think it could be added to i8042 driver to enable it. How messy is
> > > detection?
> >
> > I use simple DMI matching in acer_acpi to do this on known broken
> > laptops.
> >
> > (acerhk calls directly into the BIOS to find this information - but I
> > suspect the data from that could easily be extracted and converted to
> > proper DMI table entries).
> >
> > These are the the three that I know of (and are supported by acer_acpi)
> > that require this quirk:
> >
> > static struct dmi_system_id dritek_extension_quirk[] = {
> > {
> > .callback = dmi_matched,
> > .ident = "Acer Aspire 5650",
> > .matches = {
> > DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Acer"),
> > DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 5650"),
> > },
> > },
> > [etc...]
> > };
>
> OK, we should be able to add it to i8042 pretty easily.
Ok, I completely forgot about this thread...
Dmitry - where would be the best place to add this? Put the DMI matching in
i8042-x86ia64io.h, and then run the quirk somewhere in i8042.c?
-Carlos
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