Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:52:22 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configurable Magic Sysrq
Message-ID: <20041031185222.GB5578@elf.ucw.cz>
References: <20041029093941.GA2237@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20041029093941.GA2237@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1196
Lines: 25

Hi!

>   I know about a few people who would like to use some functionality of
> the Magic Sysrq but don't want to enable all the functions it provides.
> So I wrote a patch which should allow them to do so. It allows to
> configure available functions of Sysrq via /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq (the
> interface is backward compatible). If you think it's useful then use it :)
> Andrew, do you think it can go into mainline or it's just an overdesign?

Actually, there's one more thing that wories me... Original choice of
PC hotkey (alt-sysrq-key) works *very* badly on many laptop
keyboards. Like sysrq is only recognized with fn, but key is not
recognized when you hold fn => you have no chance to use magic sysrq.

Perphaps sysrq could be made prefix notation? Like alt-sysrq, release,
press s is sync?
								Pavel
-- 
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
-
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/