ACK / APPLIED[D/Unstable]: [SRU] [B/C/D/Unstable] [PATCH 0/1] Silent "Unknown key" message when pressing keyboard backlight hotkey

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Feb 22 10:44:55 UTC 2019


On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 09:38:37PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817063
> 
> [Impact]
> Kernel message shows this once keyboard backlight hotkey gets pressed:
> [ 3285.474172] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0010 and code 0x003f pressed 
> It's for notification purpose, doesn't have any function.
> 
> [Fix]
> Use KE_IGNORE for this type of event, so the keymap won't parse it.
> 
> [Test]
> Once the patch is applied, the annoyance goes away.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. This patch silence the useless message, no functional change.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

Applied to disco and unstable, thanks!



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