Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
>> What, actually, is the problem?
> 
> It changes the behaviour, it will annoy the hell out of people like me who 
> have to deal with different kernels and expect this to just work. :-(
> Since then has it been acceptable to just go ahead and break stuff? This 
> problem doesn't really look unsolvable, so why is my request to fix the 
> damn thing so unreasonable?

Ok, what about this one?

I don't have time to test it (it compiles, at least), but it seems the 
logic is pretty clear: once you have pressed both "Alt" and "SysRq" 
sysrq mode becomes active until you release *both* keys. In this mode 
any regular key press triggers handle_sysrq.

This allows for all the combinations mentioned before in this thread and 
makes the logic simpler, IMHO.

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