From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:01:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100414160111.GB2450@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100414134321.GA11335@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:43:21PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:40:14PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
> > Ask vendors, who are shipping specialized windows drivers for their mice,
> > to be please so kind and always include a linux driver as well, and nuke
> > all the probing logic from in-kernel driver?
>
> Well, in this case we know that there's a synaptics (it's in ACPIPNP)
> and we know that an internal synaptics places pretty heavy constraints
> on what else is going to be attached to the machine.
>
As in... anything? Many boxes still have external PS/2 ports that can
have pretty much any type of mouse attached. Especially those HPs that
have active multiplexor.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 12:16 Jiri Kosina
2010-04-14 12:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-14 12:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-14 12:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-14 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-14 12:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-14 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-14 13:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-14 13:40 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-14 13:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-14 16:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-04-14 16:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-14 21:57 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-14 22:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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