Re: Synced to 2.4.12

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

> It indeedd works better. Howeverr, it is still not perrfect. As yoou may
> notice, the key-repeat behaves quite oddly. It is disabledd when I try to
> use it, but some characters are sometimes reepeated more than the
> intenddeed  amount (I am using the linuxconsole tree right now). But at
> least I am making some progress  ;)

I haven't figured it out yet. kbd_rate sets the type rate but it uses
ioperm to change those values. It directly playes with the hardware. So I
moved it out of the way to prevent that. Something else is accessing the
ioctl call for the console system to change the the keyboard rates. I did
change the code for that ioctl to use the input api. Unfortunely theri is
a annoying bug in the code. That has to be worked out anyways since you
have for the console system do things you can set the repeat rate for. The
beep noise and the keyboard. I think it is getting confussed between the
two. Okay off to finish my white paper on the console project. Yes I'm
writing a white paper to explain everything that has been done so far.