[PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:31 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> 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!

I don't know about ages, the patch has been acked, and looks likely to
make the 3.4 merge window.  I does seem rather low risk, but it is more
a feature than a bug fix at this point, and might have some difficulty
making it into the stable series.  The functionality it provides is nice
to have, but not something that is critical for us to pick up in the
Fedora tree before it makes upstream.  This isn't to say that we don't
like the patch, or don't agree with it.  Simply that we certainly prefer
that features go through upstream first.

Justin