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Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] input: Default to only using PNP for i8042 probing
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Ok, there's no way I'd merge this for 2.6.34 any more, but one comment:

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> Experimenting with Windows has revealed that it will not probe the
> keyboard controller unless a valid PNPACPI device is present. Change our
> behaviour to match, and add a new i8042.forcedprobe parameter to allow
> people to override it.

If you do this, then please remove the nasty __ia64__ #ifdef while at it.

		Linus