Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:14:59 -0700 | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stateful Magic Sysrq Key |
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:44:37PM -0400, Crutcher Dunnavant wrote:
> This patch was developed to handle crappy KVM-alikes, which did one key > at a time, and had no SysRq key. However, it gives a good solution to a > common problem. Many keyboards are made cheaply, and do not support > having large numbers of keys pressed simultaneously, making the current > SysRq code almost useless on them.
This iss sort of funny...A number of people at the office thought SysRq was already stateful because there are a number of keyboards that do not send a release event when alt+sysrq+another key are pressed simultaneously....It actually makes it look like alt-sysrq is pressed until alt-sysrq is actually pressed again without any keys following it. I suppose this patch makes this cheap keyboard flaw transparent. :)
Simon-
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