Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 2010 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 |
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On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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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