Problems with Hotplug

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:37 +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote:

> Ok, you _are_ joking :-) Now, iff you had suggested a nice ol' Vt200 terminal
> i would agree that there's a hard to beat stability, but PS/". Sheesh.
> Those darn plugs aren't even hot-plugable! Great for a consumer device
> (to all novices out there: _never_ replug PS/2 on a running box. It can
> fry your mainboard). Don't tell me that you've done it and nothing happened.
> We all have, but i've seen more than one roasted PS/2 controller ...
> And if you are still not convinced  have a look at the ugly kernel code 
> that initializes the PS/2 keyboard.

This shouldn't be true on any hardware built since 98 or so. But even
so, USB is more convenient.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org