Re: git: ce881170088c - main - atkbd: Disable periodic polling by default.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:47:07 UTC
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 08:13:03PM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
A> commit ce881170088c4c98c036fe561f8ee8413c2e2585
A> Author:     Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
A> AuthorDate: 2022-01-05 20:00:36 +0000
A> Commit:     Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
A> CommitDate: 2022-01-05 20:12:58 +0000
A> 
A>     atkbd: Disable periodic polling by default.
A>     
A>     It is one of the few remaining Giant-locked callouts.  It would be
A>     good to remove it, not mentioning that polling itself is not good.
A>     
A>     If this cause keyboard/mouse freezes on some hardware, please set
A>     loader tunable hw.atkbd.hz=1 as workaround and report the issue.
A>     
A>     Submitted by:   imp, jhb

Lame question: this is related only to a keyboard plugged into PS/2, isn't it?

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Gleb Smirnoff