linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use PC-BIOS NUMLOCK flag

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Message-ID: <20081016143856.GD5071@const.bordeaux.inria.fr>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:38:56 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use PC-BIOS NUMLOCK flag

Hello,

Bodo Eggert, le Thu 16 Oct 2008 13:59:49 +0200, a écrit :
> +	  If you have an alternative firmware like OpenFirmware or LinuxBios,
> +	  this flag might not be set correctly, which results in a random state
> +	  of the Numlock key.

That's an issue. That means that distributions will just not enable,
and thus the flag is not really useful, since people who would
compile their own kernel would very likely have already setup their
initialization scripts into calling setleds +num (or just set LEDS=+num
in /etc/console-tools/config on a debian machine).

Samuel
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