misc/43261: Keyboard driver doesn't tolerate minor hardware faults

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>Number:         43261
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Keyboard driver doesn't tolerate minor hardware faults
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 05 19:40:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     rider
>Release:        5.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD stallion ...

>Description:
After replacement of the keyboard cable NetBSD's pckbd driver produces a lot of 
output like

May  5 21:35:04 stallion /netbsd: pms_enable: command error 35
May  5 21:35:04 stallion /netbsd: pms_enable: command error 35
May  5 21:35:06 stallion /netbsd: pckbport: command timeout
May  5 21:35:06 stallion /netbsd: pckbport: command timeout
May  5 21:35:06 stallion /netbsd: pms_disable: command error
May  5 21:35:06 stallion /netbsd: pms_disable: command error
May  5 21:35:10 stallion /netbsd: pckbport: command timeout
May  5 21:35:10 stallion /netbsd: pckbport: command timeout

whilst rejecting any (terminal) input (VT switching is possible trough).

The problem seems to be pecular to NetBSD, ((Debian) GNU/Linux for example 
doesn't even complains about it.
Indeed, NetBSD is extremely correct, but rejecting a working keyboard because 
of a minor failure is too much
IMHO, I hope that developers would be kind enough to change the current 
behaviour :-)

(If it's relevant, the keyboard is BTC 9110 with PS/2 interface)


>How-To-Repeat:
You may venture to manually replace an expendable keyboard's cable :-)


>Fix: