Re: Keyboard is frozen on boot of 2.3.41

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 10:45:23 EST


> Look at the while loop in "handle_kbd_event(void)". The ps2 status
> register can really be hammered.

Yep

> By adding an "mdelay(1);" before the second "status = kbd_read_status();",
> everything works fine.

But serial ports start dropping thousands of characters. Thats the real pain,
that code path needs to be running with irqs enabled and that isnt a trivial
fix in 2.2.x

Alan

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