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On Tuesday 19 October 2004 01:30 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'm a little leary of changing the way the kernel grabs the USB hardware > > from the way we have been doing it for the past 6 years. So by > > providing the option for people who have broken machines like these, we > > will let them work properly, and it should not affect any of the zillion > > other people out there with working hardware. > > > > Or, if we can determine a specific model of hardware that really needs > > this option enabled, we can do that automatically. If you look at the > > patch, we do that for some specific IBM machines for this very reason. > > > > Is there any consistancy with the type of hardware that you see being > > reported for this issue? > > Like 30% of all notebooks? ;) They do boot without the USB handoff, the > PS/2 mouse works, but only as a PS/2 mouse, no extended capabilities > detection is possible due to the BIOS interference. > I will send a list of examples tomorrow but so far it includes IBM Thinkpads, Dells, Sonys, Compaqs, Fujitsus, Toshibas, Supermicro-based boards and nonames. We risk growing that DMI list pretty big ;) -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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