Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:41:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
        jkosina@suse.cz
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>, chris@the-brannons.com,
        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.cz,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Subject: Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?
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On Sun 2013-03-24 11:30:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> On Mon 2012-12-03 23:58:48, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On 3 Dec 2012 16:19:11 -0500
> > "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > (Not sure who owns this; Cc: to the last few people to touch
> > > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c.)
> > 
> > linux-input is probably the best place to discuss this
> 
> Added few more ccs. Yes, I see that too, in kernels such as debian
> 2.6.32. It may be even older than that, but I was not using docking
> heavily in the old days.
> 
> Symptoms for me are that pretty often capslock LED will start show
> opposite of true capslock state. I normally use X these days.

Ok... so it is:

Each capslock key only controls the local LED, but affects global
state.

So I turn on capslock on PS/2 keyboard its led is on. But I type on
USB keyboard, its capslock led is off, but I type in all caps. Oops.

								Pavel 
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