From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ucw.cz>,
vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lowered priority of "too many keys" message in atkbd
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:08:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604130818.GA17261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040604124811.GC11950@elf.ucw.cz>
On Fri, 4 June 2004 14:48:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > This patch is from the Debian kernel package and I think it's valid
> > because this error doesn't cause any kind of malfunction of the
> > system.
>
> Except perhaps dropped key?
>
> When keypress is lost, I like to know if my fingers are to blame,
> keyboard hardware is to blame, or keyboard is misdesigned.
And from experience I can tell, that lossy keyboards are a royal pain
in the behind. And the system not doing *exactly* what I tell it to
do *is* a malfunction of the system.
"This is bad. Do you really want to do it? (y/n)"
Just a single wrong key, eh!
Jörn
--
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it.
Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-30 8:31 Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-04 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-04 13:08 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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