Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:16:37 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, Robert <robert@chalmers.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: uh oh - after 4 -> 4.2 cvsup, no keyboard. any ideas? Message-ID: <200102110616.PAA07027@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:49:08 PST." <200102110549.f1B5n8A29927@earth.backplane.com> References: <20010204112503.E71706@skriver.dk> <EJEPLCEELLLLAMPNEJMHIECHCLAA.robert@chalmers.com.au> <200102110424.f1B4OVW18984@harmony.village.org> <200102110446.f1B4ksR29654@earth.backplane.com> <200102110525.OAA06084@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200102110549.f1B5n8A29927@earth.backplane.com>
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>:This behavior creats problems for those who wants to use the USB >:keyboard which is fully capable of hot plugging/unplugging, because >:syscons will always use the AT keyboard driver even when the AT > > That's nice... and what percentage of the FreeBSD crowd happens to use > USB keyboards verses those who don't? I don't think very many people. > It is totally inappropriate to switch the defaults around and frack up > probably 90% of the FreeBSD installs when a small amount of extra work > would have made both keyboards work just dandy. > > Changing the default was ill-advised at best, and I think it should be > changed back to normal. If USB keyboard users want to use a USB > keyboard that's fine, but the normal keyboard controller should *NOT* > be disabled as a side effect. > > -Matt The flags 0x1 was added to the AT keyboard driver when the USB support was added to GENERIC by default in -CURRENT (GENERIC rev 1.255) and in -STABLE (GENERIC rev 1.246.2.5). (I don't recall many complaints at that time...) We need to develop consensus on this. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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