Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:40:10 +0000 | From | Nick Warne <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider range of hardware |
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:27:12 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:24:29PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote: > > > But how you determine if these certain laptops produce a keypress > > release I don't know with having all of them at hand... > > The quirk is only applied to a small number of keys which wouldn't > want autorepeat anyway, so it's pretty clearly harmless even if the > hardware works sanely. > > > So it needs BOTH 'Dell Inc.' and 'Dell Computer Corporation' to > > cover these laptops (I guess), as per the info I got from people > > running dmidecode: > > That's what the patch adds. I don't have appropriate hardware to test. >
Yes.
I have copied to the Ubuntu bug report (they already pushed out your first patch) so hopefully people there can test it as I don't have this hardware either.
BTW, what was it that produced this issue in the first place? All previous kernel versions worked OK?
Thanks,
Nick
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