Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:45:52 +0200

>> You don't need to patch Linux at all. In fact for silly things like 
>> this
>> I would recommend against it :)
>
> If the workaround doesn't go into the kernel, everybody with affected
> hardware has to individually find out about the bug (probably by 
> experiencing
> an annoying keyboardless boot) and fix it himself.

That's one of the reasons why this should go into a bootwrapper.

Segher