[Mr. Xu not mailed directly because his mail server has my mail host blacklisted.] retitle 248940 kernel: caps lock key events delayed on Toshiba Libretto L5 laptop [BUG STALLED BECAUSE HERBERT XU WILL NOT PERMIT IT TO BE REASSIGNED TO THE KERNEL; cf. #121335] thanks On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:08:43PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > reassign 248940 xlibs > quit > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:03:04PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org: > > > > > reassign 248940 kernel > > Bug#248940: xlibs: caps lock takes time to disengage with xfree86/pc101/dvorak on Toshiba Libretto L5 laptop > > Bug reassigned from package `xlibs' to `kernel'. > > Please cc <pkg>@packages.debian.org when reassigning. I did. From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> To: 248940-submitter@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org Cc: kernel@packages.debian.org ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Subject: Re: Bug#248940: xlibs: strange caps lock lag Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:59:58 -0500 Message-ID: <20040529035958.GS3676@deadbeast.net> > In the BTS entry I've found no evidence to indicate that this is a kernel > bug. No, it's been suggested that it's a hardware bug, and the OS is the abstraction layer for the hardware. > In fact, in raw mode it is up to the user-space appliation to keep track > of things like caps-lock state. That's not what's being complained about. Please read the original report carefully. > Therefore it is mostly likely to be an X bug a priori. Raw mode is supposed to expose an abstract keyboard interface unseasoned by terminal-related concerns, not every defect in the underlying hardware. As the 2.6 kernel likes to tell people, "XFree86 should not access the hardware directly." Raw mode is not "accessing the hardware directly". It's not XFree86's job to work around hardware bugs. It's the kernel's. However, I am supremely disinterested in playing your favorite sport (bug tennis), so I guess this bug will languish until a kernel person can be troubled to look at it, just like the last Toshiba laptop keyboard problem you insisted wasn't the kernel's business to deal with[1][2]. As you said, "There is no way that this patch can be accepted...Don't bother reassigning it back to me because I will simply reassign it again with no warning."[3] Mr. Belmonte, you may want to take your concern directly to the linux-kernel mailing list, as Mr. Xu is likely, given his past behavior, to blockade any efforts to resolve this in Debian's kernel. That his conception of the meaning of "raw mode" differs from that of the upstream kernel maintainers does not stop him from imposing his vision of it on Debian's kernel packages, even after his resignation from the Debian Project[4]. I apologize for the inconvenience his uncooperative attitude is causing you. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/01/msg00197.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=121335 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=121335&msg=39 [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/05/msg00568.html -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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