linux-kernel - Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:38:36 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 2.6.30 leaking keys on console switch

On Wed 2009-10-14 00:39:28, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:19:50AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Btw, what kind of keyboard is this? I was playing today but I could not
> > > get my USB keyboards to report release of more than 1 key per report....
> > 
> > The log was with a PS/2<->USB adapter, with a PS/2 keyboard connected
> > to a USB port through it.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, I don't think I have one of those... It is curious beast - we have
> software autorepeat for HID but PS/2 keyboards do autorepeat
> themselves... What will combination do?

I always wondered how that's supposed to work... on loaded system. As
linux is not realtime system, it can't, afaict.


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