keyboard repeat speed went nuts since 2.6.0-test5, even in 2.6.0-test6-mm4

[Jurriaan]

I like my keyboard fast (must be from playing a lot of angband).

In 2.6.0-test5, after '/sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250', I get some 2000
characters in a minute (pressing n continuously, stopwatch in hand).
In 2.6.0-test6 and 2.6.0-test6-mm4, after '/sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250',
I get some 820 characters in a minute.

30 cps != 800/60 s, that's more like half that rate.

Booting with or without atkbd_softrepeat=1 on the kernel commandline
makes no difference at all.

It's not only the repeat-speed that has gone down, the delay before
repeat kicks in is notably slower as well. This is perhaps even more
frustrating, but harder to measure :-(

This is on a plain Chicony KB-7903 PS/2 keyboard. It is connected via a
Vista Rose KVM to a VIA KT400 chipset motherboard.

Any patches to test are very welcome here.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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