Jiri Kosina schrieb:

> first, why did you remove me from CC when responding?

Sorry, on too many lists with widely varying reply rules. Just goofed.

> Anyway, what would be your proposal here? Currently the output reports 
> (for changing the keyboard LEDs, for example) are being submitted as soon 
> as the corresponding input event occurs (on different keyboard), which 
> makes sense. Could you be more elaborate on what are the exact drawbacks 
> you see here, and what would your proposal be? (postponing it into 
> workqueue? why?).

The basic problem is the difference between CAPS LOCK event and CAPS 
LOCK state. The state may be in user space only. Windows even has it on 
a per process base (At least theoretically. It is not very well 
documented what the difference between GetKeyState and GetAsyncKeyState is).

>> I do know about special keyboards which do not have a concept of CAPS 
>> LOCK, SCROLL LOCK or NUM LOCK at all for the simple reason of not having 
>> the corresponding keys. Personally i do not think the keyboards should 
>> be held in sync (aka having a single virtual keyboard).
> 
> If you think so, please raise this on linux-input mailing list (and CC at 
> least me and Dmitry).

When i find time (yet another list to subscribe to).

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