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From: Aaron Campbell (aaronmonkey.org)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 08:15:35 CDT

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    On 13 Apr 2001, Michael Lestinsky wrote:

    > I could reproduce this with a GENERIC kernel built from yesterday's (April
    > 12th) sources. I am not very sure whether this should be considered a bug
    > or not. Pluggin in PS/2-devices to a running machine isn't really allowed
    > by the PS/2-specifications, starting with the plugs themself which aren't
    > hotpluggable, OTOH it's common (and bad) practise.

    Since it's not supported by the specification, I consider hotplugging PS/2
    devices as "undefined" behavior. Meaning, it might work on some machines,
    but not others. On machines where it doesn't work, you might even get
    lucky once in awhile.

    The OS can do its best to see if the device is "still there", but that
    doesn't help if the hardware itself freaks out. 

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Aaron Campbell (aaronmonkey.org || aaronopenbsd.org)
http://www.monkey.org/~aaron