psmouse unusable in -mm series (was: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 unsusable on DELL Inspiron 8200, 2.6.15-rc1 works fine)

[Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>]

* Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> [2005-11-21 22:43:50 -0500]:

> On Sunday 20 November 2005 12:14, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > * Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> [2005-11-18 22:07:19 -0500]:
> > 
> > > On Friday 18 November 2005 13:29, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> > > > Nov 18 12:58:37 stiffy kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
> > > > 
> > > > SOME STUFF MISSING? HUH?
> > > > 
> > > > Nov 18 13:03:14 stiffy kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hm, this worries me a bit... Could you please try appying the patch
> > > below to plain 2.6.15-rc1 and see if mouse starts misbehaving again?
> > 
> > Dmitry,
> > 
> > I applied the 5 patches to a plain 2.6.15-rc1. The mouse was well as if it was
> > in an unpatched kernel. The problem just occured in 2.6.15-rc1-mmX.
> > Plain 2.6.15-rc1 was fine before as well. So: actually no change.
> > 
> > Need any more info?
> >
> 
> Marc,
> 
> Thank you for testing the patch. It proves that your mouse troubles
> were not caused by the patch I made so I am very happy. "No change"
> is the result I wanted to hear ;)
> 

Dmitry,

there's a bug report filed against Debian's udev. You can read it here:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340202

The bug report, however, states that the problem is caused by udev under
all variants of kernel 2.6.15. I'm writing this mail while running
2.6.15-rc1 and the mouse definitely works. Do you have any other hint?
Seems to me like the bug report is only half the truth... 

Regards,
	Marc