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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't worry about the level on mactel-support. that is just for the
team's reference.

It is not a bug since it is not a failure of anything in the code. This
is actually more of a feature request (no that it is not a good feature
to have). You need to talk to the Linux kernel developers as this
functionality should be added there.

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SysRq key equivalent needed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262408
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
MacBook keyboards and other Apple keyboards lack a SysRq key and therefore lack important kernel functionality that is designed to save catastrophic data loss if the computer freezes.  An equivalent keystroke should be assigned, for example Fn + Eject, to preserve the functionality of the Magic SysRq key in linux on a Mactel.  I believe this is a bug and not a feature request because the current implementation assumes that all keyboards have a SysRq key which is an incorrect assumption and therefore a mistake, or bug.