[PATCH] Input: atkbd - rate-limit unknown key warnings

From: Zhang Heng

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 09:29:13 EST


Replace dev_warn() with dev_warn_ratelimited() for unmapped scancode
warnings, matching the existing rate-limited handling of spurious
ACK/NAK events in the same function.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221214
Signed-off-by: Zhang Heng <zhangheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
index 93650c98206d..26523329040b 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
@@ -497,13 +497,11 @@ static void atkbd_receive_byte(struct ps2dev *ps2dev, u8 data)
case ATKBD_KEY_NULL:
break;
case ATKBD_KEY_UNKNOWN:
- dev_warn(&serio->dev,
- "Unknown key %s (%s set %d, code %#x on %s).\n",
- atkbd->release ? "released" : "pressed",
- atkbd->translated ? "translated" : "raw",
- atkbd->set, code, serio->phys);
- dev_warn(&serio->dev,
- "Use 'setkeycodes %s%02x <keycode>' to make it known.\n",
- code & 0x80 ? "e0" : "", code & 0x7f);
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&serio->dev,
+ "Unknown key %s (%s set %d, code %#x on %s); use 'setkeycodes %s%02x <keycode>' to make it known.\n",
+ atkbd->release ? "released" : "pressed",
+ atkbd->translated ? "translated" : "raw",
+ atkbd->set, code, serio->phys,
+ code & 0x80 ? "e0" : "", code & 0x7f);
input_sync(dev);
break;
--
2.25.1