Re: Trying to run 2.6.0-test3

["Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>]

"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> replied to me.

> > accept a USB keyboard but they refused.  The patch which I sent to Vojtech
> > Pavlik was ignored and these two keys continued not to work (except on my
> > machine).  Finally Mike Fabian accepted a gift of a USB keyboard and this
> > defect in Linux got fixed.  But only for somewhere around the last half of
> > the 2.4 releases, not for 2.6.
> > What will it take this time?
>
> Posting the patch with any luck ?

Hirofumi Ogawa posted a patch for the yen-sign pipe key on 2003.07.23 for
test1 but his patch still didn't get into test3.  On a PS/2 keyboard that
seems to be the only key with any problem.

Yesterday when I finally tried a USB keyboard and found that the backslash
underbar has the same problem, maybe I was the first person to even try a
Japanese USB keyboard in 2.6, and maybe no one at all tried some number of
2.5 series kernels.  As mentioned, usually I can only spend one day a week
testing 2.6.  I'll try to spend one day next weekend trying to figure out
the new necessary patch.  If I succeed, but if it gets ignored again, I'll
probably rejoin the set of users who never have time to test.

I really do think that if Andries Brouwer or Vojtech Pavlik would accept a
gift of a USB keyboard then this kind of bug would be avoided a lot earlier.