Re: [PATCH] Make Dell keyboard repeat quirk apply to a wider range of hardware

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 12:27:23 EST


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:24:29PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:

> But how you determine if these certain laptops produce a keypress
> release I don't know with having all of them at hand...

The quirk is only applied to a small number of keys which wouldn't want
autorepeat anyway, so it's pretty clearly harmless even if the hardware
works sanely.

> So it needs BOTH 'Dell Inc.' and 'Dell Computer Corporation' to cover
> these laptops (I guess), as per the info I got from people running
> dmidecode:

That's what the patch adds. I don't have appropriate hardware to test.

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