Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>]

Con Kolivas wrote:

>On Monday 08 May 2006 16:43, Helge Hafting wrote:
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>>Dave Jones wrote:
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>>>On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>>>If you only pressed single key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
>>>>some problem in the driver.
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>>>>If you never pressed any key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
>>>>some problem in the driver.
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>>>That's hardly a constructive answer when the keyboard is a part of
>>>a laptop.  Crap hardware exists, get used to it.
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>>If some laptop comes with a bad keyboard, please blacklist
>>it so future linux users can avoid the brand when shopping
>>for hardware.
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>This is great in theory but if we end up blacklisting half of the hardware out 
>there we're stuffed. The truth is most hardware out there is cheap and nasty 
>and sells in vast quantities. We have workarounds for timer code being buggy 
>on virtually half the motherboards out there on amd64 for example...
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Well, it depends on how broken they are then.
These keyboards actually work, so it is not so much a case
of being broken, more a case of  "too cheap to follow the spec,
but we can still get the keypresses"? 

I should have been more clear.  With blacklisting, I didn't mean
to make the driver refuse them.  I was thinking about
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html
and similiar sites, where a buyer can go and look for any linux issues
with the hardware he plans to buy.  There is no problem if 50%
of all hardware ends up here - one can then read about the issues
and decide if they matter enough to get a different brand instead.

Helge Hafting