Re: [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:
> >  
> > ________________________________
> >  De : Timo Kreuzer<timo.kreuzer(a)web.de>
> >  À : ReactOS Development List<ros-dev(a)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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