From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265783AbUFDNJL (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:09:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265777AbUFDNJK (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:09:10 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:2754 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265783AbUFDNJI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:09:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:08:20 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Pavel Machek Cc: Christoph Hellwig , vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lowered priority of "too many keys" message in atkbd Message-ID: <20040604130818.GA17261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20040530083126.GA30916@lst.de> <20040604124811.GC11950@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040604124811.GC11950@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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