On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:19:42AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 4/24/06, Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 4/24/06, Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:31:39AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Vojtech, could you remind me why EVIOC{G|S}REP were removed? Some
> > > > people want to have ability to separate keyboards (via grabbing); they
> > > > also might want to control repeat rate independently. Shoudl we
> > > > reinstate these ioctls?
> > >
> > > I believe they were replaced by the ability to send EV_REP style events
> > > to the device, setting the repeat rate.
> > >
> >
> > Argh, why am I always forgetting about ability to write events into devices?
>
> Thinking about it some more - writing to the event device is an
> elegant way to set repeat rate but how do you retrieve current repeat
> rate for a given device?
You can't. And that's likely a problem that needs fixing.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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