Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 08:54:24 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. |
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Con Kolivas wrote:
>On Monday 08 May 2006 16:43, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >>Dave Jones wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> >>> >>>>If you only pressed single key -- your keyboard is crap or there's >>>>some problem in the driver. >>>> >>>>If you never pressed any key -- your keyboard is crap or there's >>>>some problem in the driver. >>>> >>>> >>>That's hardly a constructive answer when the keyboard is a part of >>>a laptop. Crap hardware exists, get used to it. >>> >>> >>If some laptop comes with a bad keyboard, please blacklist >>it so future linux users can avoid the brand when shopping >>for hardware. >> >> > >This is great in theory but if we end up blacklisting half of the hardware out >there we're stuffed. The truth is most hardware out there is cheap and nasty >and sells in vast quantities. We have workarounds for timer code being buggy >on virtually half the motherboards out there on amd64 for example... > > Well, it depends on how broken they are then. These keyboards actually work, so it is not so much a case of being broken, more a case of "too cheap to follow the spec, but we can still get the keypresses"?
I should have been more clear. With blacklisting, I didn't mean to make the driver refuse them. I was thinking about http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html and similiar sites, where a buyer can go and look for any linux issues with the hardware he plans to buy. There is no problem if 50% of all hardware ends up here - one can then read about the issues and decide if they matter enough to get a different brand instead.
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