Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751524AbWEEQAU (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751598AbWEEQAT (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50824 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524AbWEEQAS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 12:00:09 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Martin Mares Cc: Pavel Machek , dtor_core@ameritech.net, "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. Message-ID: <20060505160009.GB25883@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Martin Mares , Pavel Machek , dtor_core@ameritech.net, "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel References: <20060504024404.GA17818@redhat.com> <20060504071736.GB5359@ucw.cz> <445A18D8.1030502@mbligh.org> <20060504183840.GE18962@redhat.com> <20060505103123.GB4206@elf.ucw.cz> <20060505152748.GA22870@redhat.com> <20060505154638.GE22870@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 30 On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:54:52PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote: > > I'd argue that anything that triggers that many false positives is worthless. > > Why do you think these are false positives? They usually report real > problems. Did you read my earlier posts? Users are seeing this *during boot*, before they've even pressed *ANY* keys. They're seeing it after pressing a *single* key. How on earth is "too many keys pressed" a useful message in this context? Yes, maybe their keyboard is crap, but what is the user to do? Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how hardware should be? > Unfortunately a significant fraction of keyboards is crappy > these days, but it's still good to know if the keyboard you are currently > testing is broken or not. When a user can't do *anything* about it, it's useless, and serves as nothing but a cause for concern. "Oh no, is my laptop dying?". Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/