On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I think that's true except in the case where the Leading Other OS won't > use a device unless it's present in ACPI - that kind of enforcement > tends to concentrate vendors' minds, even if they'd otherwise be busy > filling data tables with garbage. Largely true. That said, nobody uses Windows in a headless environment, the way people _do_ use Linux and then later plug in a keyboard. Also, even with Windows, I do wonder if they have things like cut-off dates for trusting ACPI. We certainly do. 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