From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Pete Zaitcev" <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@dell.com
Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000704051354q61c5a6b4p9e8005152da4b42e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070405133840.0d67303f.zaitcev@redhat.com>
On 4/5/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> On a certain keyboard, when BIOS sets NumLock LED on, it survives the takeover
> by Linux and thus confuses users.
>
> Eating of an increasibly scarce quirk bit is unfortunate. We do it for safety,
> given the history of nervous input devices which crash if anything unusual
> happens.
>
You know, I would not call turning leds on an off an unusual operation
for a keyboard.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-05 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 17:59 Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-30 18:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30 19:54 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-30 20:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-31 19:35 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-31 22:43 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 5:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 14:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 23:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-03 5:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-03 6:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-03 8:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-03 8:57 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Robert Marquardt
2007-04-03 9:32 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 3:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-05 8:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 20:38 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-05 20:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-04-05 21:22 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-01 11:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-01 16:16 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 4:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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