Toshiba keyboard workaroun

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

You said that you'll submit toshiba keyboard fix for 2.4 to
marcelo... Here goes 2.5 version, will you submit it to Linus? ;-).

--- clean/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2003-02-15 18:51:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2003-02-15 19:19:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -1020,6 +1041,23 @@
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 	int shift_final;
 
+        /*
+         * Fix for Toshiba Satellites. Toshiba's like to repeat 
+	 * "key down" event for A in combinations like shift-A.
+	 * Thanx to Andrei Pitis <pink@roedu.net>.
+         */
+        static int prev_scancode = 0;
+        static int stop_jiffies = 0;
+
+        /* new scancode, trigger delay */
+        if (keycode != prev_scancode) 	       stop_jiffies = jiffies;
+        else if (jiffies - stop_jiffies >= 10) stop_jiffies = 0;
+        else {
+	    printk( "Keyboard glitch detected, ignoring keypress\n" );
+            return;
+	}
+        prev_scancode = keycode;
+
 	if (down != 2)
 		add_keyboard_randomness((keycode << 1) ^ down);
 

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