Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:13:26 -0500 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Suppressing softrepeat |
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On 2/22/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote: > 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. >
OK, then I'll schedule this change for 2.6.17 and we'll see if anyone screams.
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