Re: [PATCH] psmouse: fix mouse hotplugging

From: Kim Holviala
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 13:10:09 EST


On Thursday 22 April 2004 18:46, Horst von Brand wrote:

> > This patch fixes hotplugging of PS/2 devices on hardware which don't
> > support hotplugging of PS/2 devices. In other words, most desktop
> > machines.
>
> I have seen "hoplugging of mice" fry PS/2 ports, and heard of motherboards
> killed that way.

And I've heard people rm -rf'ing their root. Yet rm is still included.

Anyway, the patch should also fix rare cases of KVM weirdness and an even
rarer cases of mouse not detected properly at boot.




Kim
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