Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:04:50 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up
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Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Yes, it would still be considered down. But that does not imply
> that pressing it doesnt do anything. It is up to the driver
> to discard key presses, and I think it shouldnt.
> (Unless of course the user asks for that behaviour - it may be required
> on some broken laptops.)

It should discard multiple presses of the same key in very rapid
succession, when that is immediately after the first press of that
key.  (After a time has passed, rapid successive presses are due to
auto-repeat, which is ok).

Several laptops seem to send a key down event 3, 5 or very many times
in response to a single press.

-- Jamie
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