Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262386AbTINLYB (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 07:24:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262397AbTINLXQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 07:23:16 -0400 Received: from smtp3.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.139]:14036 "EHLO smtp3.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262386AbTINLW0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 07:22:26 -0400 Message-ID: <206701c37ab2$6a8033e0$2dee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: "Andries Brouwer" Cc: , "Vojtech Pavlik" References: <1b7301c37a73$861bea70$2dee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20030914122034.C3371@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards [3] Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:21:30 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2918 Lines: 63 "Andries Brouwer" wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:51:32PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: > > In thread "Re: Trying to run 2.6.0-test3", Alan Cox replied to me: > > > > > > What will it take this time? > > > > > > Posting the patch with any luck ? > > > > I knew that that would not be sufficient. > > Just repeat. Do not repeat the complaining because complaining > with zero information content is just discarded. > But if you repeat the patch, together with an explanation of why > this is the correct patch, sooner or later somebody will look at it. Due to the complexity of this answer, I am making three separate postings. I make no assertion that the following is correct or is a patch, but think that it deserves consideration. I spend about one day each weekend testing this kernel, have had patches ignored enough times, and seriously think of rejoining the set of users who never have time to test. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Diamond" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Greg KH" ; "Linux Kernel Mailing List" ; "Andries Brouwer" ; "Vojtech Pavlik" Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Trying to run 2.6.0-test3 > "Alan Cox" replied to me. > > > > accept a USB keyboard but they refused. The patch which I sent to Vojtech > > > Pavlik was ignored and these two keys continued not to work (except on my > > > machine). Finally Mike Fabian accepted a gift of a USB keyboard and this > > > defect in Linux got fixed. But only for somewhere around the last half of > > > the 2.4 releases, not for 2.6. > > > What will it take this time? > > > > Posting the patch with any luck ? > > Hirofumi Ogawa posted a patch for the yen-sign pipe key on 2003.07.23 for > test1 but his patch still didn't get into test3. On a PS/2 keyboard that > seems to be the only key with any problem. > > Yesterday when I finally tried a USB keyboard and found that the backslash > underbar has the same problem, maybe I was the first person to even try a > Japanese USB keyboard in 2.6, and maybe no one at all tried some number of > 2.5 series kernels. As mentioned, usually I can only spend one day a week > testing 2.6. I'll try to spend one day next weekend trying to figure out > the new necessary patch. If I succeed, but if it gets ignored again, I'll > probably rejoin the set of users who never have time to test. > > I really do think that if Andries Brouwer or Vojtech Pavlik would accept a > gift of a USB keyboard then this kind of bug would be avoided a lot earlier. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/