Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2007-07-25

[PATCH]: Add command-line option to i8042 to completely disable it

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From: Chris Lalancette <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-23 17:05:40
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(I tried to send this patch to linux-input@, but it seems to be currently having
some problems, so I'm going directly to LKML).

Certain (broken) pieces of South Bridge hardware will respond to
i8042_read_status() on boot with 0x0, despite there not being a real i8042
controller hooked up in the south bridge.  This can cause the detection for the
i8042 to return a "phantom" device, which hangs up later initialization.  Note
that using "i8042.nokbd" and/or "i8042.noaux" do not help with this, since this
shows up during i8042_controller_check() (before either of those options are
checked).  This patch adds a command-line option "i8042.disable", which just
completely disables any checking for the i8042 controller.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <redacted>


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