Re: New Input PS/2 driver

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> Nice, I've just tested it and it works mostly, at least more than ruby. 
> Theres still problems with multiple keys. Holding shift and any of the 
> insert/delete/home/end/page up/page down keys, results in two warnings:
> unknown key(set 2, scancode 0x159 on input/0 ) pressed and released

Hm. Your keyboard generates a unquie scancode when pressing those key
combo that is lacking in the scancode to event table. I wonder what we
should label those scancodes. 
 
> Also when rebooting the input-kernel the BIOS reported keyboard error and I 
> had to do a full power-off.

I have this problem when I have 2 PS/2 keyboards plugged in. The input
driver doesn't depend on the firmware so it programs the i8042 chipset
itself. At reboot it in theory should reset itself to a sane state. This
is done by the i8042_controller_cleanup which is setup by 
register_reboot_notifier. This means it is not being called by the
notifier chain. Do you have this issue only when hitting alt-ctrl-delete?
 
> But I didnt see any off the autorepeat problems from ruby.

That is my fail. I changed some of the console code to use the input api
to reset the auto repeat rate. This is a bug in that code somewhere I have
to fix.

> This is becoming a pretty good alternative, if we can keep up a functional 
> patch against 2.4 until 2.5.

No problem. I hope to get it into Alan's tree soon.