Re: Side effect of pressing special keys

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Ok, and what about KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE when bios also handle 
> keyboard backlight level? Should be this key filtered too?

IME, heck yes.

If you ever make the mistake of sending to userspace something the
BIOS/kernel already reacted to, they will find a way to loop it back to you
and cause all sort of issues.

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