From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:25:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605081725.29977.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445EE899.6040908@aitel.hist.no>
On Monday 08 May 2006 16:43, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> >On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > If you only pressed single key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > > some problem in the driver.
> > >
> > > If you never pressed any key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > > some problem in the driver.
> >
> >That's hardly a constructive answer when the keyboard is a part of
> >a laptop. Crap hardware exists, get used to it.
>
> If some laptop comes with a bad keyboard, please blacklist
> it so future linux users can avoid the brand when shopping
> for hardware.
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...
--
-ck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-04 2:44 Remove silly messages from input layer Dave Jones
2006-05-04 7:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 7:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-04 15:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-04 18:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-05-04 18:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-05 10:39 ` Sergei Organov
2006-05-05 10:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-05 15:27 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 15:54 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 16:00 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-05 16:12 ` Martin Mares
2006-05-05 19:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-05 20:06 ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-05 20:30 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-07 8:07 ` Joseph Fannin
2006-05-08 6:43 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-08 7:25 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2006-05-09 6:54 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-04 19:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-04 15:45 ` David Greaves
2006-05-06 18:51 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2006-05-04 14:59 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-04 19:24 ` Hua Zhong
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