The patch titled Input: i8042 - disable keyboard port when panicking and blinking has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Input: i8042 - disable keyboard port when panicking and blinking From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This should get rid of "spurious ACK" messages from atkbd driver during panic. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking drivers/input/serio/i8042.c --- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c~input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking +++ a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c @@ -836,9 +836,16 @@ static long i8042_panic_blink(long count */ if (!i8042_blink_frequency) return 0; + if (count - last_blink < i8042_blink_frequency) return 0; + /* + * Disable keyboard port so ATKBD won't fill logs with + * "spurious ACK" messages + */ + i8042_ports[I8042_KBD_PORT_NO].exists = 0; + led ^= 0x01 | 0x04; while (i8042_read_status() & I8042_STR_IBF) DELAY; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are git-acpi.patch git-dvb.patch git-input.patch input-i8042-get-rid-of-polling-timer.patch input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking.patch ucb1x00-ts-handle-errors-from-input_register_device.patch -- VGER BF report: H 2.81386e-05 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html