Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755995AbYCNJVi (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:21:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752710AbYCNJVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:21:31 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:34073 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752306AbYCNJVa (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:21:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:21:29 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Pavel Machek cc: David Newall , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Keys get stuck In-Reply-To: <20080313171425.GA4840@ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <47D7B428.6010804@davidnewall.com> <20080313171425.GA4840@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 20 On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > No. > hw is proper place to implement autorepeat, and along with some > buffering, it has chance to work. Kernel is not real-time, and X are > definitely not real-time, while autorepeat is real-time operation. > It actually mostly works in ps/2 case. Buffer in hardware means that > pretty big interrupt delays can be tolerated without problems. That's true. Unfortunately USB keyboards don't behave this way and there is nothing we can do about that. -- Jiri Kosina 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/