Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > CONFIG_BLINK=y
> > OOps. WTF is that?
> > 
> > config BLINK
> > 	tristate "Keyboard blink driver"
> > 	help
> > 	  Driver that when loaded will blink the keyboard LEDs
> > continuously.
> > 	  This is useful for debugging and for kernels that cannot
> > necessarily
> > 	  output something to the screen like kexec kernels to give
> > the user
> > 	  a visual indication that the kernel is doing something.
> > ..does it need "default n"? Why does it make keys stuck sometimes?
> 
> Are you sure that it's this dummy blink driver that makes the kernel 
> stuck? I can't see how it could be causing any hogs - see commit f038f9.
> 
> Anyway, added Andi to CC.

I'm not sure, and stuck keys are quite hard to reproduce. It only
happened twice in two days. But I've never seen stuck key on this
thinkpad x60 before, so...
								Pavel
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