Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Sau Dan Lee]

>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> Where it is now possible to move it out of kernel space WITHOUT
    >> performance problems, why not move it out?

    Oliver> Two reasons: security and robustness.

    Oliver> 1. sysreq must work, always work. Ideally you even do the
    Oliver> dump in hard irq. USB has been modified to support this.

It  doesn't  always work.   Try  to  compile  'i8042' and  'atkbd'  as
modules.  rmmod one of them, and voila: SysRq doesn't work anymore.



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Sau Dan LEE                     ???(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

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