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SubjectRe: i8042 access timings
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:09:24AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So what _might_ happen is that we write the command, and then
> i8042_wait_write() thinks that there is space to write the data
> immediately, and writes the data, but now the data got lost because the
> buffer was busy.

Hmm - I just answered the same post and concluded that I didnt understand,
so you have progressed further. I considered the same possibility,
but the data was not lost since we read it again later.
Only the ready flag was lost.

> The IO delay should be _before_ the read of the status, not after it.

Andries
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