Re: [PATCH] Disable i8042 checks on Intel Apple Macs

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:55:52AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 10:13 -0700, dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:20:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 16:18 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 15:03 +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > > > That function already bails out if x86_platform.legacy.i8042 ==
> > > > > X86_LEGACY_I8042_PLATFORM_ABSENT.  The check could either be
> > > > > amended with "|| x86_apple_machine"
> > > 
> > > In any case this suggestion seems to be the best to cover any Mac:s.
> > > If
> > > ACPI already has it disabled — we are fine, otherwise bail out based
> > > on
> > > DMI check.
> > 
> > Why would one run with ACPI disabled?
> >  I do not think we should be
> > supporting this [mis-]configuration...
> 
> The comment was about the bit in FADT table which reflects the i8042
> presence on platform in the question. You can't for sure check that bit 
> if ACPI is disabled. By the way, I didn't tell anything about ACPI being
> disabled, sorry for confusion.

Ah, sorry, I misparsed what you said. Anyway, I think we should trust
ACPI there and not add additional DMI quirks unless absolutely
necessary.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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