Re: Magic Alt-SysRq change in 2.6.18-rc1

Roman Zippel
2006-07-11T22:21:40Z

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Apparently it changes existing well documented behaviour, which is a
> > really bad idea.
>
> _well documented_? Where was it documented? Anyway, 2.6.17 behaviour
> does not work on _many_ keyboards, like for example thinkpad x32...

Documentation/sysrq.txt and this was working on _many_ more keyboards just
fine.
The fact is this patch changes existing behaviour, it either needs to be
fixed or reverted. Adding new features is one thing, breaking existing
features is not acceptable without a very good reason.

bye, Roman