Re: i8042 resume timing

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Hi Jiri,

On Monday 26 May 2008 09:19, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> There are systems [1] that fail in i8042_resume(), as 
> i8042_command(&i8042_ctr, I8042_CMD_CTL_WCTR) call returns error (not sure 
> about the exact error yet, the reporter didn't yet collect i8042.debug 
> output during the failure, as it is not completely reproducible), but 
> retrying after small amount of time succeeds.
> 
> Looks like a buggy hardware to me, which we should workaround. Would you 
> prefer DMI-based match for this retry logic with respect to CTR register 
> on the resume path, or would you accept this as a general retry logic on 
> resume path? (which is very probably not needed on vast majority of 
> systems though).


I think just retrying a couple of times in case of failure is the most
sensible thing to do.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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