On 5/14/07, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch adds a soft release key mask to input_dev, to enable keyboard > drivers to determine which keys never generate a hardware release event and > hence add a release event after every press event of such keys. The mask is > controlled by ioctls. I don't think we want to add all the infrastructure for the benefit of single driver. Can we add a quirk to atkbd and activate it based on DMI?
As the atkbd.c driver already had a work-around for exactly the same problem with some (I think) Korean keyboards (KEY_HANGEUL and KEY_HANJA), adding this infrastructure (well, one pointer and two ioctls) seemed a logical step. If you prefer a hack just in atkbd.c and activate it on Dell laptops, I see what I can do. The problem with that is that I don't know the scancodes of all keys on all models (and future models) that exhibit this behaviour. I'll implement what I know, though (it'll take some time because I'll be travelling quite a lot very soon). Greetings, Giel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/