Keyboard broken on iBook - linuxppc-2.5 latest

cliff white cliffw at osdl.org
Tue Oct 7 08:37:32 EST 2003


On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:27:28 +0200
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 22:24, cliff white wrote:
>
> > Thanks, much appreciated. If you'd like some more testing before that,
> > please point me to bits, would be grateful.
>
> Patch from Brice Figureau earlier on this list:
>
Thank you all, this does fix my problems
cliffw


>
>      From:
> Brice
> Figureau
> <brice at tincell.com>
>        To:
> cliff white
> <cliffw at osdl.org>
>        Cc:
> linuxppc-dev at lists.linuxppc.org, linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>   Subject:
> [PATCH]
> macintosh/adbhid.c REP_DELAY fix (was Re: 2.6.0-test5 - stuck keys on iBook)
>      Date:
> Fri, 03 Oct
> 2003
> 09:40:22
> +0200
>
>
> Hi Cliff,
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:31, cliff white wrote:
> > Kernel version: latest from ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5
> >
> > Symptom: keyboard diarrhea - single keypress == 3-7 characters.
>
> Here is a patch that fixes the keyboard problem. The input layer
> REP_DELAY (and REP_PERIOD) were changed from jiffies to ms but the adb
> was not updated accordingly.
>
> I hope this will help you.
>
> Brice
>
> --- drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c.orig     2003-10-02 22:39:31.112571794
> +0200
> +++ drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c  2003-10-02 22:40:22.888120863 +0200
> @@ -611,8 +611,8 @@
>                 /* HACK WARNING!! This should go away as soon there is
> an utility
>                  * to control that for event devices.
>                  */
> -               adbhid[id]->input.rep[REP_DELAY] = HZ/2;   /* input
> layer default: HZ/4 */
> -               adbhid[id]->input.rep[REP_PERIOD] = HZ/15; /* input
> layer default: HZ/33 */
> +               adbhid[id]->input.rep[REP_DELAY] = 500;   /* input layer
> default: 250 */
> +               adbhid[id]->input.rep[REP_PERIOD] = 66;   /* input layer
> default:  33 */
>         }
>  }
>
>
>
>

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