Re: Remove silly messages from input layer.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 11:46:31 EST


On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:37:28PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:31:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > > If you only pressed single key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > > some problem in the driver.
> > >
> > > If you never pressed any key -- your keyboard is crap or there's
> > > some problem in the driver.
> >
> > That's hardly a constructive answer when the keyboard is a part of
> > a laptop. Crap hardware exists, get used to it.
>
> Yes, but removing a message which can be sometimes useful is hardly
> justified by crappy hardware sometimes triggering it. If it's triggered
> too often, it should be rate-limited, not removed.

I'd argue that anything that triggers that many false positives is worthless.

Dave

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