linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider range of hardware

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Message-ID: <20081112172712.GA16382@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:27:12 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Nick Warne <nick@...sn.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider range of hardware

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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