linux-kernel - "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:27:33 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270

Hi,

I noticed that a new machine I got yesterday, Dell Latitude E7270,
always shows the error at boot time:
	dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed

 From what I read from the code, it seems non-fatal.  But is it a way
to "fix" it?

Or shouldn't we simply lower the printk level?


thanks,

Takashi