Re: input layer strangeness

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > It's been doing this ever since the input layer changes:
> >
> > - open a few xterms
> > - press the spacebar, leave pressed
> > - start waggling the mouse about
> > - stop pressing spacebar, keep waggling the mouse about,
> >   across the xterms
> >
> > The keystrokes *never* stop coming.  Just the continuous mouse
> > activity causes a stream of keyboard input, at seemingly the normal
> > autorepeat rate. I can keep them coming for 30 seconds, just by
> > moving the mouse.
> 
> Do they stop coming when you stop moving the mouse or they don't stop at
> all? The first would be quite interesting, the second would probably be
> a missed key release event due to keyboard controller overload by the
> mouse.

They stop immediately if I stop moving the mouse.

> > In practice, it's irritating because it's quite easy to get a
> > stream of erroneous input dumped into the wrong windows.
> >
> > It's a vanilla dual pentium with an AT keyboard and a PS/2
> > mouse.
> 
> Can you check if it happens also on UP? Just want to know if it might be
> a SMP issue ...

Will do.