[systemd-devel] [Patch] NumLock setting from vconsole.conf

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Thu Jan 31 09:56:34 PST 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:26:58PM +0100, Matthias Berndt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It has bothered me for some time that vconsole.conf doesn't offer a setting to 
> boot with NumLock enabled. With the patch in the attachment you can put 
> NUM_LOCK=y in vconsole.conf (or vconsole.num_lock=y on the kernel command 
> line) and it'll do the right thing. SCROLL_LOCK, CAPS_LOCK, 
> vconsole.scroll_lock and vconsole.caps_lock work correspondingly. I'm not sure 
> how useful that is especially for CapsLock, but it felt incomplete without 
> that and was easy to implement, so meh.
> 
> Comments welcome

  Not commenting on the merit of patch, but please update manpages when introducing
new options.
  Thanks,

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