Re: Suppressing softrepeat

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

On 2/22/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:09:33PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > How about simply this patch instead?
> > >
> > > Setting autorepeat will not be possible on 'dumb' keyboards anymore by
> > > default, but since these usually are special forms of hardware anyway,
> > > like the DRAC3, this shouldn't be an issue for most users. Using
> > > 'softrepeat' on these keyboards will restore the behavior for users that
> > > need it.
> >
> > I am not keen on changing the default behaviour... How many dumb
> > keyboards are out there?
>
> Apart from the DRAC3, some home-made Sun-to-PS2 converter, and a single
> non-x86 embedded box, I don't recall anything. Answer: very few.
>
> There may be users, though, that use this option to force the detection
> of the keyboard when not really plugged in, eg. for flaky KVMs. I've
> Googled for that usage, but found none.
>
> > I'd rather turn atkbd.softrepeat into a 3-state switch...
>
> We could, but the more I think about it, the stronger I'm convinced that
> the dumbkbd => softrepeat => softraw option implication chain is wrong.
> The second implication is necessary, but with dumbkbd it's quite likely
> you won't want softraw.
>

OK, then I'll schedule this change for 2.6.17 and we'll see if anyone screams.

--
Dmitry