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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@dell.com,
	zaitcev@redhat.com
Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:22:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405142203.bb2f0fb5.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000704051354q61c5a6b4p9e8005152da4b42e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:54:17 -0400, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.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.

Right, but monkeying with them immediately upon initialization may be
"unusual", meaning "device was tested with one version of Windows and
shipped, everything else is unusual".

-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-30 17:59 usb hid: reset NumLock 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
2007-04-05 21:22                   ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
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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