Re: usb hid: reset NumLock

Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:14:20 -0400, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I didn't like a) layering violation, and b) that they defeat filtering
> > unconditionally. Why have any filtering then?
> >
> > Instead, I propose for USB HID driver to reset NumLock on probe. Like this:
> >
> > --- a/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c

> This is fine and that's what we do in atkbd probe but maybe we should
> move that in input core and reset leds as part of
> input_register_device()?

Sure, as long as it works. I think (as much as I understand), that we
already attempt to do this indirectly. input_register_device invokes
->start handlers, and the kbd_start attempts to reset LEDs, but fails
because of the state filtering.

-- Pete

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