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Message-ID: <20081112174010.209149e1@palantir.linicks.net> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:40:10 +0000 From: Nick Warne <nick@...sn.org> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider range of hardware On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:27:12 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> 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 -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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