The patch allows to configure off the logging of ATKBD_KEY_UNKNOWN events. This logging can be healthy, but usually it just pollutes the kernel log. And this logging may be _very_ massive. Very probably that other (than atkbd) keyboard drivers may win from the similar patches. Please apply this patch. --- drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig +++ drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig @@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ menuconfig INPUT_KEYBOARD if INPUT_KEYBOARD +config KEYBOARD_VERBOSE_KEY_UNKNOWN + bool "Report unknown keys" + default n + help + If Y, each press and release of any key unknown to the keyboard driver + will be logged at the KERN_WARNING level. This is really good if you + want to study your keyboard, but may really flood your logs. + Be warned! + config KEYBOARD_ATKBD tristate "AT keyboard" if EMBEDDED || !X86_PC default y --- drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c +++ drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c @@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ static irqreturn_t atkbd_interrupt(struc case ATKBD_KEY_NULL: break; case ATKBD_KEY_UNKNOWN: +#ifdef KEYBOARD_VERBOSE_KEY_UNKNOWN printk(KERN_WARNING "atkbd.c: Unknown key %s (%s set %d, code %#x on %s).\n", atkbd->release ? "released" : "pressed", @@ -450,6 +451,7 @@ static irqreturn_t atkbd_interrupt(struc printk(KERN_WARNING "atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes %s%02x <keycode>' to make it known.\n", code & 0x80 ? "e0" : "", code & 0x7f); +#endif input_sync(dev); break; case ATKBD_SCR_1: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
