Re: Toshiba kbd patch

Andrei Pitis (pink@roedu.net)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:50:47 +0200 (EET)


On Mon, 6 December 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Andrei Pitis wrote:
> >
> > Ok, though it only affects PC architectures: pc_keyb.c - is this used
> > for other architectures as well? Also, is there a safe way to
> > intercept/get kbd rate/delay settings? That would be a good delay to
> > use...
>
> It's used by all the "pc-like" architectures, including things like alpha
> etc..
>
> More importantly, even on just PC's we might end up changing HZ at some
> point.
Ok, please use (HZ / 4) - this is one quarter of a second (250ms) in all
cases except if HZ is not divisible by 4, which I hope will not happen :-).

Andrei

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