Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans (input patches)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Sep 20 2006 - 17:50:57 EST


On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:29:43 -0400
"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/20/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > remove-silly-messages-from-input-layer.patch
>
> I firmly believe that we should keep reporting these conditions. This
> way we can explain why keyboard might be losing keypresses. I am open
> to changing the message text. Would "atkbd.c: keyboard reported error
> condition (FYI only)" be better? It is KERN_DEBUG after all.

But it irritates some people.

Perhaps we could make the message disable itself after the first 5-10
instances?

> > input-i8042-disable-keyboard-port-when-panicking-and-blinking.patch
> > i8042-activate-panic-blink-only-in-x.patch
>
> There was a concern that blinking is useful even when not running X.
> Do you have any input?

No, sorry.

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