Fix for 'the kermit problem' (keyrepeats happening before the keyrepeat

timeout). A fix is to treat the alarm and interrupt cases differently and
only call the interrupt handler when an actual interrupt has been seen. No
apparent adverse effects.

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty.c b/drivers/tty/tty.c
index 9968e0dff2fd68f471814860faff1dee53211d0a..19c04729b62abe1c20f1f72ddffa68c485ecf33b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty.c
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ PUBLIC void main(void)
         */
        switch (tty_mess.m_type) { 
        case SYN_ALARM:                 /* fall through */
+               expire_timers();        /* run watchdogs of expired timers */
+               continue;               /* contine to check for events */
        case HARD_INT:                  /* hardware interrupt notification */
                do_interrupt(&tty_mess);/* fetch chars from keyboard */
                expire_timers();        /* run watchdogs of expired timers */