Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:07:30 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, pavel@ucw.cz
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even for
	non-ASCII
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Hi!

> > So we agree, and so the right solution is to either completely rework
> > the interface (ugh), or just add LED routing (which can be very useful,
> > actually, I for instance don't care at all about the num lock state, but
> > I _do_ care about the lock that lets me shift between different keyboard
> > layouts).
> > 
> 
> Adding LED routing and using keyboard levels is so clearly The Right Thing.
> 
> We already allow the LEDs to be programmed; we should probably just
> have, for each LED, the ability to program it off/on/flashing/connected
> to modifier #X.
> 
> The current KDSETLED/KDGETLED interface is of course too limited for
> this -- we need an interface with at least a byte per LED.

Actually, we already have very nice /sys/class/led interface, and we
should just use it for keyboard leds, too. Actually I have a patch,
somewhere...
									Pavel
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