linux-kernel - Re: usb hid: reset NumLock

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Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:22:03 -0700
From:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
To:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@...l.com,
	zaitcev@...hat.com
Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock

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