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From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: i8042 problem
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030728115924.GB1706@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059391505.15440.12.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:25:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 02:55, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:47:26 +0200
> > > From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
> > 
> > > So the culprit is the failing of atkbd_probe().
> > > It does a ATKBD_CMD_GETID, but gets no answer, then a
> > > ATKBD_CMD_SETLEDS, and that command fails.
> > 
> > I see the light now. Somehow I imagined that atkbd code does not call
> > the ->open for the port. Now it all falls into place. Everything works
> > with a bigger timeout.
> 
> Unfortunately with this change several people still report failures

Ach. One bug fixed and the Linux kernel is still not perfect?
What a pity.

[But yes, as I also said to someone else: on i386 one has a working
keyboard after bootup. No initialization and no probing required.
The new keyboard code uses a lot of knowledge about common keyboards
and keyboard controllers. It works in most cases. But already the
linux-kernel readers see a long stream of problems. I am afraid of
the effect on a million Linux users.]

[[On the other hand, as I wrote somewhere else, this is a great way
to learn a lot about very obscure keyboards.]]


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-28 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-26  6:11 i8042 problem Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-26  9:36 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-27  1:41   ` Chris Heath
2003-07-27  6:06     ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-27 10:47       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28  1:55         ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-07-28 11:25           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:59             ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-07-28 14:01               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 14:54                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28 15:43                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 15:51                     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 18:29                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-08-12 20:46                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 13:44                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-28 16:07             ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-08-12 20:47               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-12 20:42         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-12 23:06           ` Andries Brouwer

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