From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 17 14:56:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (e165253.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27BC37B405 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:56:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.hans.org [127.0.0.1]) by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FABC36471 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:56:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 56E5336470; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:56:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:56:49 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Belkin 8-port KVM = keyboard inactive Message-ID: <20020417235649.A82751@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B66F@exchange.cigital.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <51CC94132526754995E79DCF28C0C34D09B66F@exchange.cigital.com>; from yanek@cigital.com on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:59:03PM -0400 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yanek Korff wrote: > So my question is this: Under what circumstance would I ever want to > fail on no keyboard? Even if there WERE no keyboard plugged in, is it > not helpful to install the driver in anticipation of a keyboard being > added (eg. server in a cage, keyboard plugged in when needed). I vote for setting the default to 'always do as if a keyboard was detected' and just log if none was detected during boot. That way servers would not have the problem of late-connected keyboards and ppl with broken keyboards still have the log telling them their keyboard is broken. regards, Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message