Re: Toshiba kbd patch

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Dec 1999 16:52:19 -0800

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912061534320.1054-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well, it looks reasonable, but at the very least the magic constant "25"
> would need to be something readable like "HZ/2" so that it would actually
> work on correctly other architectures than x86 too.
>
> Also, I'm really rather nervous about 250ms being too long. Are there any
> really good touch-typists out there? I can easily see somebody pressing
> the same key more than four times a second, and I'd hate to lose
> keystrokes for good typists. Please convince me this is safe..
>

I definitely don't think it's safe.

-hpa

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