Re: Suppressing softrepeat

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 2/21/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:43:08PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>
> > Add the "nosoftrepeat" parameter. This is useful if a "dumb" keyboard
> > has (unswitcheable) hardware repeat, like in Dell DRAC3.
>
> The softrepeat code should properly ignore all autorepeated keys from a
> 'dumb' keyboard. It's rather common that a keyboard we can't communicate
> with is in autorepeat mode, because that's the mode AT keyboards wake up
> in after power on.

Hmm, atkbd only detects "repeated" keystrokes if it is working in
hard-repeat mode:

        value = atkbd->release ? 0 :
                                (1 + (!atkbd->softrepeat &&
test_bit(atkbd->keycode[code], atkbd->dev->key)));

Should we always recognize "repeats"? Then we woudl not need any
workarounds, be it kbdrate or sysfs.

--
Dmitry