From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767153AbXDEUyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767222AbXDEUyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:20 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]:61097 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767153AbXDEUyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KU1ZjAs35oBramDgDGXdEwSxvTMtlsxqlVM3ZmSClIV8lG6crvdyqZf4qske4Ht6j5jrq2BWajDE38w+RSs2LNOhe68odznO0vB5JnkUkTRk3w8fvi0WDetOTB6ACFVqy3gTyk5rIUdlteW2zYVy8m3ucP8QgqDrrm35bq8dcaQ= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:17 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Pete Zaitcev" Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock Cc: "Jiri Kosina" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@dell.com In-Reply-To: <20070405133840.0d67303f.zaitcev@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070330105924.01a16dd6.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20070402161225.2866c002.zaitcev@redhat.com> <200704042324.56345.dtor@insightbb.com> <20070405133840.0d67303f.zaitcev@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/5/07, Pete Zaitcev 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