linux-kernel - Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

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Message-Id: <1171481172.12771.450.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:26:12 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > 
> > Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change
> > from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"?
> 
> How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all 
> keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I think. I don't 
> know of any AT kbd command to read the led state out of the keyboard.

and if there was one.. wanne take bets on how well it works with the
various SMM emulated USB keyboards out there? ;)


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