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    SubjectRe: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6


    On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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    > I've done some experimentation under qemu. On ACPI systems, Windows will
    > *only* touch the keyboard controller if there's a device with an
    > appropriate PNP HID or CID and if _STA evaluates to 0x0b or 0x0f.
    > Otherwise it'll simply ignore the hardware entirely. By the looks of it
    > their keyboard probing is also somewhat different to ours, but that's
    > probably another story.

    Well, I'd hate to lose the keyboard hotplug capability, but at the same
    time, it _is_ 2010, and while I have personally used it historically, I
    don't really foresee ever using it again.

    So we _could_ decide to just try it, and see if anybody screams. If nobody
    does, that would be a very simple solution to the problem.

    Linus


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