From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keys get stuck
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:47:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312144701.GZ15804@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D7B428.6010804@davidnewall.com>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:14:56PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> It should be said that X implements auto-repeat out of necessity. While
> the kernel can report key down and up events, its further interpretation
> of those events is not appropriate. Many combinations of events are
> possible, such as keyboard plus mouse, and this precludes the kernel
> from providing a full interpretation. It would be wrong for it to even
> try. X is the proper place to implement auto-repeat for X.
The problem is that under heavy load the auto-repeat problem is real;
I've seen it as well, and it means that I've started to try to avoid
"make -j4" since that's a great way to trigger it.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 23:32 Keys get stuck Fred .
2008-03-12 0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 8:48 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-03-12 10:32 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-12 10:44 ` David Newall
2008-03-12 14:47 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-12 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-12 16:47 ` David Newall
2008-03-12 16:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-12 21:22 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2008-03-13 5:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-03-13 9:48 ` Jan Knutar
2008-03-13 11:28 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-03-13 11:31 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-13 12:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-03-13 12:02 ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-03-13 12:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-13 12:19 ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-03-13 12:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-03-13 14:18 ` Helge Hafting
2008-03-13 15:13 ` Swap makes X unfair (was Re: Keys get stuck) Carlos R. Mafra
2008-03-14 11:02 ` Helge Hafting
2008-03-15 22:11 ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-03-16 15:27 ` Jan Knutar
2008-03-14 18:34 ` Keys get stuck Pavel Machek
2008-03-13 17:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-13 17:56 ` Fred .
2008-03-13 18:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-14 9:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-14 18:24 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-14 21:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-03-14 13:30 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-03-14 19:35 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-13 13:01 ` Mark Lord
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2008-03-14 20:20 ` Bodo Eggert
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