From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757895Ab0E1Att (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 20:49:49 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39476 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755088Ab0E1Atq (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 20:49:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:46:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Robert Hancock cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.34-rc6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100513075728.GF30110@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100513160117.GB22238@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4BFE0FAB.9040009@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 May 2010, Robert Hancock wrote: > > It's highly unlikely that they are incomplete in this respect, as > since I mentioned, Windows would fail to recognize the PS/2 controller > that people would expect to work, which would most likely get > noticed.. Did you miss the part where I actually quoted my own modern Core i5 machine that _does_ have a keyboard controller, and _does_ have a keyboard port, and that does _not_ mention them in the PnP tables? > I think this is a case where it has to be trusted, because that's what > Windows does. The thing is, Windows isn't used for things like headless machines. Which we went over extensively in the thread. There's a _reason_ why Linux probes the dang thing. Linus