On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will > *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an > appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f. > Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it > their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's > probably another story. Well, I'd hate to lose the keyboard hotplug capability, but at the same time, it _is_ 2010, and while I have personally used it historically, I don't really foresee ever using it again. So we _could_ decide to just try it, and see if anybody screams. If nobody does, that would be a very simple solution to the problem. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
