[patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Jan 26 08:25:56 EST 2003


On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 22:04, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > > Well... the problem happpens in console as well, and with other
> > > non-X apps like MacOnLinux. Some Apple PowerBooks have over-sensitive
> > > trackpad. Apple themselves implement a similar mecanism in the kernel
> > > driver of OS X.
> >
> >   Mine is one of those machines.  I have to turn off gpm for sure, and X is
> > quite oversensitive too (tuned it in KDE, but still this functionality would
> > be very nice).
>
> How about implementing it in mousedev.c?

Right, though it would need hooks in kbddev or something to know
about keystrokes. Also, I don't like the sysctl's as those need
allocating sysctl numbers, which are always a problem. In 2.5,
we could have these in sysfs, though for 2.4 I'm not sure what
to do.

Ben.


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