Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754448Ab2B0VKE (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:10:04 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48129 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754134Ab2B0VKD (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:10:03 -0500 Message-ID: <4F4BF11E.4090000@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:09:50 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua C." CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [RESUBMIT] [PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1588 Lines: 37 On 02/27/2012 11:23 AM, Joshua C. wrote: > I rebased this on the latest kernel-3.3-rc5 so that it can be properly applied. > ------------------ > > From 36e15b8d9d491817a3bada5ef9375aabe9439d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2012 > From: Joshua Cov > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:49:18 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock > > The PC BIOS does provide a NUMLOCK flag containing the desired state > of this LED. Bit 0x417 has the current keyboard modifier state. This > patch sets the current state according to the data in the bios and > introduces a module parameter "numlock" which can be used to > explicitely disable the NumLock (1 = enable, 0 = disable). > > See first discussion back in 2007 at: > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1834.html > > Signed-Off-By: Joshua Cov > Cc: H. Peter Anvin > Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> > A better idea might be to query the status in the BIOS bootstrap code -- then non-BIOS boots can do the equivalent. It also has the side benefit of making people running Grub2 perhaps realize that they are f****ng themselves over by using the "linux" command and not "linux16", because of course policy in Grub2 is that if there is a sane way to do it, make sure it is NOT the default. -hpa -- 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/