Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 20:21:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nuri Jawad <lkml@jawad.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: Remove silly messages from input layer. 
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Joseph Fannin wrote:
>Spamming my logs with these messages so often that my dmesg buffer
>soon contains nothing but and I have to use grep -v to read my syslog
>is not user-friendly, and I am hardly a novice.

I don't doubt that, but we're going in circles here. I never alleged this 
message was useful for everyone, but it IS useful for users with a working 
keyboard and specifically with mechanical switches (can be triggered by a 
loose cable or too slow turning of the dial, this a few times repeated can
cause the keyboard *port* to lock up, requiring a reboot).

If you have broken hardware that keeps triggering an error message that 
is valid and informative for a majority of users, use the source and 
comment it out. Nobody has a problem with that.
But don't try something that will leave us with no error messages left in 
the long run because somebody somewhere with broken hard- or software got 
spammed by them.

To the topic starter: calling such a message "silly" is pretty silly. And 
that from a distro maintainer..

Regards, Nuri
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