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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:01:15 -0700
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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: add HP Compaq 2710p to 'noloop' table
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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