Input: psmouse - ignore parity error for basic protocols
Observing behavior of the other OS it appears that parity errors reported
by the keyboard controller are being ignored and the data is processed
as usual. Let's do the same for standard PS/2 protocols (bare, Intellimouse
and Intellimouse Explorer) to provide better compatibility. Thsi should fix
teh following bug:
This bug is now fixed in the latest Linux kernel git. Please backport to Lucid and earlier?
commit 6b9d363c49d2239 5d0cf8729c5963f 83cfbb6d69
Author: Dmitry Torokhov <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Apr 19 00:42:16 2010 -0700
Input: psmouse - ignore parity error for basic protocols
Observing behavior of the other OS it appears that parity errors reported
by the keyboard controller are being ignored and the data is processed
as usual. Let's do the same for standard PS/2 protocols (bare, Intellimouse
and Intellimouse Explorer) to provide better compatibility. Thsi should fix
teh following bug:
https:/ /bugzilla. kernel. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=6105
Thanks for Damjan Jovanovic for locating the source of issue and ideas
for the patch.
Tested-by: Damjan Jovanovic <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <email address hidden>