From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for PC keyboard driver's autorepeat-rate handling
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:39:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020822203942.GA5471@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1030047374.3161.60.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:16:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 20:37, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > What it does for KDKBDREP is conform the text of kd.h, and I think
> > conform what m68k has done for years (but I've never seen the m68k patch).
> > Alan Stern is entirely right that the current 2.4 kernels and the
> > current kbdrate program have different ideas about what KDKBDREP does.
>
> XFree86 assumes the existing m68k behaviour from the base m68k tree
A good pointer. And indeed,
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_io.c
has code virtually identical to the kbdrate code (indeed, most likely
taken from kbdrate). So, it seems the kernel has to change, and
(although I have not checked it) Alan Stern's patch may be the right thing.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-22 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-22 15:59 Alan Stern
2002-08-22 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-22 19:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-22 20:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-22 20:39 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-08-22 20:57 ` Alan Stern
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