Hi Thomas, On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 26.01.2014 13:56, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > Okay, there are two problems: 1), the i8042 module was lacking > modaliases. This is resolved by this patch http://pastebin.com/bKydQZLF
I'll submit this upstream (and cc stable). > 2) Some machines to not export the i8042 controller by either ACPI or > PNP - for example, on my machine. Loading i8042 works just fine, but it > will never be autodetected. > > This message is probably related: > [14287.808024] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. Hm, this sucks a bit, as the manual probing (at least in my tests) will delay boot quite significantly. I was told that the manual probing stuff was not really relevant anymore, but if you are running into it that info seems dubious. > So, should we just apply the patch and leave it as a module, or should > we make it built-in again and close > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27555 as "Won't fix"? So I'm obviously biased, but I'd prefer if we kept this as a module. Given the problem you ran into, I see two options: inform about the possible need to force-load the module in a post-install message (if we work from the assumption that it will be a rare issue). Or, if the problem appears to be more wide-spread, simply ship a modules-load.d fragment that will load the module. This will at least will give people the option to mask the fragment if they don't need the module to avoid the boot-delays (and spurious error message in dmesg). Cheers, Tom
