Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751482AbWBVWJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:09:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751484AbWBVWJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:09:44 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:8377 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751482AbWBVWJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:09:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:09:54 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: dtor_core@ameritech.net Cc: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@dell.com Subject: Re: Suppressing softrepeat Message-ID: <20060222220954.GA7930@suse.cz> References: <20060221124308.5efd4889.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20060221210800.GA12102@suse.cz> <20060222120047.4fd9051e.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20060222204024.GA7477@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1422 Lines: 34 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. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/