linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for non-ASCII

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Message-ID: <4B055F24.8030307@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:07:16 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@...t.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for
 non-ASCII

On 11/19/2009 05:37 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> So we agree, and so the right solution is to either completely rework
> the interface (ugh), or just add LED routing (which can be very useful,
> actually, I for instance don't care at all about the num lock state, but
> I _do_ care about the lock that lets me shift between different keyboard
> layouts).
> 

Adding LED routing and using keyboard levels is so clearly The Right Thing.

We already allow the LEDs to be programmed; we should probably just
have, for each LED, the ability to program it off/on/flashing/connected
to modifier #X.

The current KDSETLED/KDGETLED interface is of course too limited for
this -- we need an interface with at least a byte per LED.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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