Hi!
> > Keep in mind that I'm not asking for a general kernel feature
> > here, I'm asking how to do it just so I can hack my own personal
> > kernel. I don't want to put it in the mainstream kernel, just to
> > fulfill a personal nit. As such I don't care how hacky or bloaty
> > the solution is.
>
> Russell King says he has a patch which does autorepeat in s/w. This is
> most definitely the best way. I did this in an OS many years ago - took
Well, not quite.
Imagine your kernel is having awfull interrupt latencies. Then HW
autorepeat makes sense and no SW autorepeat can be as good.
Pavel
PS: But it is probably not an issue, and it would fix problems with
Toshiba Satellites autorepeating after 10msec when they don't like
you.
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