From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265513AbUBPNZb (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:25:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265515AbUBPNZb (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:25:31 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:42195 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265513AbUBPNZ2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:25:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:52:22 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Jurriaan on adsl-gate Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz Subject: Re: Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed Message-ID: <20040216115221.GC470@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20040207064027.GA20495@gates.of.nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040207064027.GA20495@gates.of.nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > On my laptop, I get a lot of > > Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed. > > That may well be the case, I use my normal hands on a small > laptop-keyboard. > Why is that message printed? There nothing I can do about pressing > multiple keys by accident, so I don't think it's useful. > > It does, however, frequently mess up the commandline, which leads to big > frustration. > > Couldn't this be wrapped in #ifdef ATKBD_DEBUG or something? Is it > really necessary to see this message? Its error condition -- keyboard lost track of keys -- and yes thats worth a printk. Try running klogd. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms