Re: [PATCH 0/2] Input: discard pre-registration events and test state seeding

From: Dmitry Torokhov

Date: Sun Oct 11 2026 - 00:46:01 EST


Hi Karlos,

On Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 02:00:29PM -0400, Karlos Abel wrote:
> This series prevents input handlers from receiving buffered initialization
> events after device registration. On a ThinkPad T14 Gen 6, a later LED
> update flushed a stale SW_RFKILL_ALL event seeded by thinkpad_acpi.
> The fix drops the pending events and their timestamp before handlers
> attach, while retaining the seeded switch and absolute-axis state.

Could you explain why these seeded events give you trouble? Is it
because thinkpad_acpi() forgets to send input_sync() and so the
timestamp is stale/wrong?

Thanks.

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Dmitry