[ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 54415: [I8042PRT] - Implement support for hot plugging PS/2 mice if one was present at boot (same requirement as Windows) - Fixes bug 1395

[Ameen Ross]

Linux does support hotplugging PS/2 devices. Are you saying Windows 
supports it too? If so that must be new, because it wasn't in XP.

On 11/19/2011 02:35 AM, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
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>> De : Timo Kreuzer<timo.kreuzer at web.de>
>> À : ReactOS Development List<ros-dev at reactos.org>
>> Envoyé le : Vendredi 18 Novembre 2011 22h55
>> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [cgutman] 54415: [I8042PRT] - Implement support for hot plugging PS/2 mice if one was present at boot (same requirement as Windows) - Fixes bug 1395
>>
>> Am 18.11.2011 09:48, schrieb Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo:
>>> "if one was present at boot"
>>>
>>> wouldn't it be a new ROS feature to allow hotplugging even if there is no mice at startup?
>>>
>>> As always, im about not just copying Windows, but enhance it as possible.....
>> PS/2 standard doesn't support hot-plugging at all. In fact you might damage your mainboard with that.
>>
>> Timo
>>
> There is the standard, but thats what people do, and Windows implemented it too. 
>
> Kind regards,
> Sylvain Petreolle
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