Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider rangeof hardware

[Nick Warne]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:27:12 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:24:29PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> 
> > But how you determine if these certain laptops produce a keypress
> > release I don't know with having all of them at hand...
> 
> The quirk is only applied to a small number of keys which wouldn't
> want autorepeat anyway, so it's pretty clearly harmless even if the
> hardware works sanely.
> 
> > So it needs BOTH 'Dell Inc.' and 'Dell Computer Corporation' to
> > cover these laptops (I guess), as per the info I got from people
> > running dmidecode:
> 
> That's what the patch adds. I don't have appropriate hardware to test.
> 

Yes.

I have copied to the Ubuntu bug report (they already pushed out your
first patch) so hopefully people there can test it as I don't have this
hardware either.

BTW, what was it that produced this issue in the first place?  All
previous kernel versions worked OK?

Thanks,

Nick

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