Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans (input patches)

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Sep 20 2006 - 21:19:07 EST


On Wednesday 20 September 2006 17:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:29:43PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On 9/20/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > remove-silly-messages-from-input-layer.patch
> >
> > I firmly believe that we should keep reporting these conditions. This
> > way we can explain why keyboard might be losing keypresses. I am open
> > to changing the message text. Would "atkbd.c: keyboard reported error
> > condition (FYI only)" be better?
>
> Q: What do you expect users to do when they see the message?
>

A: Nothing. But when they tell me that sometimes they lose keystrokes I
can ask them if they see it in dmesg. And if they see it there is nothing
I can do. Again, if you could suggest a better wording that would not alarm
unsuspecting users that would be great.

--
Dmitry
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