Re: [PATCH] kbd: (#7063) make CapsLock work as expected even fornon-ASCII

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/19/2009 05:37 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> 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.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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