Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751734AbWEET7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:59:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751735AbWEET7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:59:36 -0400 Received: from leitseite.net ([213.239.214.51]:49289 "EHLO mail.leitseite.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711AbWEET7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 15:59:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 21:59:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Nuri Jawad X-X-Sender: lkml@pc To: Dave Jones Cc: Martin Mares , Pavel Machek , dtor_core@ameritech.net, "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. In-Reply-To: <20060505160009.GB25883@redhat.com> Message-ID: 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> <20060505160009.GB25883@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1195 Lines: 34 On Fri, 5 May 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > Did you read my earlier posts? Sorry to interrupt, but did you read my reply? > How on earth is "too many keys pressed" a useful message in this context? It doesn't say "user pressed too many keys", it says the keyboard *reports too many keys pressed* which is most likely what's happening. This is not a terribly useful, but valid error message. > Yes, maybe their keyboard is crap, but what is the user to do? Nothing, take notice of the fact. > Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how > hardware should be? You mean deciding not to silently ignore errors is having a utopian view? Are we talking about Linux or kernel32.dll? > 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?". Laptops come with Windows XP pre-installed for those users, what was your problem again? Regards, Nuri - 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/