linux-kernel - Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch

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Message-ID: <20090713040528.GH10819@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:05:29 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:20:56PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > > Are you seeing with a specific keyboard type(s), or is this a general 
> > > problem? Could you confirm whether it is specific either to PS2 or USB 
> > > keyboards only, or it does happen for both?
> > Can't think of any input chnages in this timeftrame that would cause
> > such effect. Maybe TTY changes?
> 
> By the way, if I understand it correctly, Andi is able to see the very 
> same effect even inside X, so tty can be possibly ruled out, right?
> 

Umm, doesn't SuSE still use legacy keyboard driver instead of evdev in
X? Thomas mentioned recently it still did...

-- 
Dmitry
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