Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753701AbYJUNd0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:33:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751207AbYJUNdS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:33:18 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:44486 "EHLO UNKNOWN" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbYJUNdS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:33:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:33:05 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Samuel Thibault , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use PC-BIOS NUMLOCK flag Message-ID: <20081021133304.GB9617@ucw.cz> References: <20081016143856.GD5071@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> <20081016191106.GB4988@const.famille.thibault.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081016191106.GB4988@const.famille.thibault.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 31 On Thu 2008-10-16 21:11:06, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Bodo Eggert, le Thu 16 Oct 2008 20:00:31 +0200, a ?crit : > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Bodo Eggert, le Thu 16 Oct 2008 13:59:49 +0200, a ?crit : > > > > > > + If you have an alternative firmware like OpenFirmware or LinuxBios, > > > > + this flag might not be set correctly, which results in a random state > > > > + of the Numlock key. > > > > > > That's an issue. That means that distributions will just not enable, > > > and thus the flag is not really useful, since people who would > > > compile their own kernel would very likely have already setup their > > > initialization scripts into calling setleds +num (or just set LEDS=+num > > > in /etc/console-tools/config on a debian machine). > > > > I hope somebody will pop up and say "Hey, those will create an IBM PC data > > area, because they run DOS" ... > > Mmm, or rather "hey, here are the patches to fix those BIOSes" :) Broken bioses being around should not penalize working bioses. Patch looks good to me. Yes, I consider LinuxBios broken in this regard. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/