From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 10 22: 9: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DA937B503 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:o2LZOtWxZE9iGesBe5cwLLyKUbrdmq2Q@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.0/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id f1B68cM08302; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:08:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:8AKM5zjpuY6xbb92f+CjoaKb/8U6LCGx@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id PAA07027; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:16:38 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200102110616.PAA07027@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Matt Dillon Cc: Warner Losh , Jesper Skriver , Robert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: uh oh - after 4 -> 4.2 cvsup, no keyboard. any ideas? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:49:08 PST." <200102110549.f1B5n8A29927@earth.backplane.com> References: <20010204112503.E71706@skriver.dk> <200102110424.f1B4OVW18984@harmony.village.org> <200102110446.f1B4ksR29654@earth.backplane.com> <200102110525.OAA06084@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200102110549.f1B5n8A29927@earth.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:16:37 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >: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