Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem

[Yoann]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:14:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>Has this problem been observed in 2.4 kernels?
>>>
>>> No, since 2.4 doesn't have the re-sync code in the mouse driver which is
>>> triggering in this case. But problems with the machine being flooded
>>> with interrupts from the NIC so hard that it actually cannot do anything
>>> are quite common.
>>
>>So is the resync code doing more good than harm?
> 
> 
> Hard to tell. The people for which it does good don't complain.

I didn't reboot my pc yet, so I'm still running a 2.4.20 without any problem 
with my mouse. but when I will boot on the 2.5.70, what I should do to find 
where does the bug come from. I'm little but new here, so I never try to 
locate a bug in a kernel...

thanks for your advice

Yoann
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