Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	rjw@sisk.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:07:22 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0907130906140.10476@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090713040528.GH10819@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com>

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > > > Are you seeing with a specific keyboard type(s), or is this a 
> > > > general problem? Could you confirm whether it is specific either 
> > > > to PS2 or USB keyboards only, or it does happen for both?
> > > Can't think of any input chnages in this timeftrame that would cause
> > > such effect. Maybe TTY changes?
> > By the way, if I understand it correctly, Andi is able to see the very 
> > same effect even inside X, so tty can be possibly ruled out, right?
> Umm, doesn't SuSE still use legacy keyboard driver instead of evdev in
> X? Thomas mentioned recently it still did...

It does.

If I understand Andi's problem though, he is able to trigger the problem 
even solely on console, with X not being involved at all.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs