[PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock

[Joshua C.]

2012/3/3 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Can some, please, apply the following patch to the fedora kernel?
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133072333922354&w=2 . It sets the
>> NumLock state on the keyboard according to the data in the bios.
>
> It'll got into F17/rawhide when it makes it into Linus' tree.  If you
> get it into the
> stable release, it will wind up in F15/F16 relatively soon.
>
> That should be sufficient, shouldn't it?  At the least I'd like to
> wait for it to wind
> up in Linus' tree.
>
> josh

This could take ages, couldn't it? You know that I have absolutely no
influence what goes and when into his tree. In that case I could have
saved myself writing this (and the first) email!