On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:16, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. i still actively use it on my linux router (normally headless and no input), as well as my main desktop from time to time :x. although "actively" might not be the correct term as i dont usually have to poke my linux router anymore ... it doesnt break very often anymore which means i dont plug in anything at all. -mike -- 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
