linux-kernel - Re: Keys get stuck

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:21:29 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	"Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keys get stuck

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
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