From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:07:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B055F24.8030307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091119133737.GE31025@const.bordeaux.inria.fr>
On 11/19/2009 05:37 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> So we agree, and so the right solution is to either completely rework
> the interface (ugh), or just add LED routing (which can be very useful,
> actually, I for instance don't care at all about the num lock state, but
> I _do_ care about the lock that lets me shift between different keyboard
> layouts).
>
Adding LED routing and using keyboard levels is so clearly The Right Thing.
We already allow the LEDs to be programmed; we should probably just
have, for each LED, the ability to program it off/on/flashing/connected
to modifier #X.
The current KDSETLED/KDGETLED interface is of course too limited for
this -- we need an interface with at least a byte per LED.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-19 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 13:51 [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-16 14:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-16 19:08 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-16 19:07 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-16 19:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-16 22:27 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-16 22:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-16 23:04 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-16 22:54 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-16 23:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-16 23:15 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-17 11:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-17 13:23 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-19 13:18 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-11-19 13:28 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-19 13:37 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-11-19 15:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-11-20 19:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-20 20:46 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-20 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-21 5:01 ` [RFC,PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (Was: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII) Samuel Thibault
2010-02-23 16:30 ` Pavel Machek
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