disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

[Matthew Emmerton]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Peter Schuller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> sorry for butting in late here, but this keyboard plugging issue has been a
> pet peeve of mine for quite a while.
>
> > But of course, the best solution to this whole hot-plugging issue is this:
> >
> > BUY ANOTHER KEYBOARD OR MOUSE.
> >
> > What you would rather do?  Buy a $20 keyboard/mouse or a $150+
> > motherboard?
> >
> > Heck, you can buy cheap 4-port KVMs for under $200 these days too.
>
> That argument just doesn't hold in home environments or low-budget colo
> environments.

If you're low-budget, buy another keyboard!

> In short - it may seem like a trival problem but it's helluva annoying
> and can easily lead to serious problems both at home and in colocation
> environments.  I'm very surprised FreeBSD doesn't handle this by default
> out of the box.

FreeBSD should not be working around user's bad practices.
It has *always* been a bad idea to hot-plug PS/2 peripherals, and
until USB is the norm, will continue to be the case.

--
Matt Emmerton