From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755541Ab0DNNb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:31:59 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:49494 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755440Ab0DNNb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:31:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:35:50 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Jiri Kosina , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table Message-ID: <20100414143550.75def636@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100414125244.GC10075@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100414123643.GB9242@srcf.ucam.org> <20100414135350.3b1643c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100414125244.GC10075@srcf.ucam.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:52:44 +0100 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 01:53:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > It's not really that unlikely that an AUX handling bug exists and only on > > one BIOS version given we've seen things as neat as i8042 emulation that > > only works on CPU #0 8) > > Doubtless, but on the other hand these machines work with versions of > Windows that were released well before them, so if there's a difference > in behaviour then we have a bug regardless of what the spec says. I think in this case you are in cloud cuckoo land. Windows doesn't autoprobe all these mouse types, and some years of careful experimentation seems to indicate the best you can do is select which devices break without blacklists.