Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932478AbXBNT0Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:26:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932480AbXBNT0Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:26:25 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45697 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932478AbXBNT0Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:26:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status From: Arjan van de Ven To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dax Kelson , linux-kernel , Jean Delvare In-Reply-To: References: <1171479361.3706.48.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:26:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1171481172.12771.450.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote: > > > > Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change > > from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"? > > How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all > keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I think. I don't > know of any AT kbd command to read the led state out of the keyboard. and if there was one.. wanne take bets on how well it works with the various SMM emulated USB keyboards out there? ;) - 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/