Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:52:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] input: introduce a tougher i8042.reset |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:16:31 -0800 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> Some touchpads don't reset right the first time (MSI Wind U-100 for > example). This patch will retry the reset up to 5 times.
Sigh, real life sucks. I wonder what the windows driver does.
> In addition, this patch also adds a module parameter to not treat > reset failures as fatal to the usage of the device. This prevents > a touchpad failure from also disabling the keyboard.... >
Is there any reason why we shouldn't just do this all the time?
IOW, is there any benefit in marking the 8042 as dead?
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