Re: [BUG] 2.5.42+ reboot kills Dell Latitude keyboard

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>]

Eric W. Biederman writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> writes:
 > 
 > > Dell Latitude CPi laptop. Boot 2.5.42 or .43, then reboot.
 > > Shortly after the screen is blanked and the BIOS starts, it
 > > prints a "keyboard error" message and requests an F1 or F2
 > > response (continue or go into SETUP). Never happened with any
 > > other kernel on that machine.
 > > 
 > > Apparently the 2.5.42+ "let's shut everything down at reboot"
 > > change
 > 
 > There was no such change just a discussion of what the kernel
 > has been doing since 2.5.8 or so.
 > 
 > > put the keyboard controller in a state which is inconsistent
 > > with the BIOS' expections at a warm boot.
 > 
 > There is a bug in device_suspend.  device_shutdown, and device_suspend
 > where merged and the POWER_DOWN case now removes the drivers which
 > is a bug.  You may be getting hit with that.
 > 
 > Eric Blade has posed a patch fixing that.

I tried Eric Blade's patch
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103477012517984&w=2>
but it didn't make any difference. Same keyboard error as before.

So either the patch doesn't change what actions are taken on reboot,
or the keyboard (std SERIO_I8042 + ATKBD PC stuff) driver was also
broken in the 2.5.41->2.5.42 step.

/Mikael