Re: Side effect of pressing special keys

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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Date
2014-12-03 13:13:14
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Pali Rohár, 2014-12-03
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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