On Monday 31 October 2005 22:09, David Brownell wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure it's legal to do pci_enable_device() from within a pci
> > > > quirk anyway. I really wonder what that code is doing in the quirks, I
> > > > don't think it's the right place, but I may be wrong.
> > >
> > > Erm, what "code is doing" what, that you mean ??
> >
> > What _That_ code is doing in the quirks... shouldn't it be in the
> > {U,O,E}HCI drivers instead ?
>
> Not for PCI. Vojtech, this is your cue to explain some of how late handoff
> borks the input layer, as observed by SuSE on way too many BIOS/hardware combos
> for me to remember ... :)
>
Not Vojtech, but here is goes... Not everyone has USB compiled in and
even then I think USB is registered after serio. So when we probe for
i8042 BIOS still has its dirty hands on USB controllers and pretends
that they are in fact PS/2 devices. Crazy stuff like that... That's
why we can't keep that code in HCI drivers.
--
Dmitry
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