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SubjectRe: Regression?: keyboard state/LED inconsistency in 2.6.32-rc1/2,3,4
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:55:43AM +0300, Marin Mitov wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 06:03:14 am Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:57:08AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18:28AM +0300, Marin Mitov wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm testing 2.6.32-rc1/2,3,4 and I'm using 2.6.31.3.
> > > > > There is a difference in keyboard/LED behavior.
> > > > > If in BIOS NumLock is set on, when the kernel starts
> > > > > it puts NumLock off and the LED state is off in 2.6.31.3
> > > > > (which is consistent), but in 2.6.32-rc1/2,3,4 the LED
> > > > > stays on (and this is not consistent with keyboard's state).
> > > > >
> > > > > Comparing drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c (I'm using it)
> > > > > in 2.6.31.3 and 2.6.32-rc1/2,3,4 among others changes I
> > > > > found the following lines (see the patch bellow) deleted,
> > > > > so I propose either to add them again (this will restore
> > > > > keyboard/LED consistency) or revert the patch that has
> > > > > deleted them.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, wow, those lines are quite clearly needed, I wonder why they got
> > > > deleted, and I'm too lazy to find the commit comment ...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm, it appears I deleted a bit too much.. At some point I was thinking
> > > the input core would reset LEDs and repeat rate on newly created device
> > > but it was wrong idea. Unfortunately I was careless in applying atkbd
> > > patch removing resume support (which should be handled by the input
> > > core)...
> > >
> >
> > Could you please try the patch below and let me know if it fixes
> > things?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Yes, Dmitry, it fixes the problem, thank you.
>

Thank you for testing. Mouse re-initialization is pretty delicate topic,
may I ask you to test some more just to make sure fix is reliable - a
few more resumes and cold/warm boots would do...

Thanks lot.

--
Dmitry


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