input_enable_softrepeat(9)

💖 NAME 💖

input_enable_softrepeat — enable software autorepeat, bestie ✨

This little icon is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's here to help you turn on software autorepeat. Slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void input_enable_softrepeat (struct input_dev *dev , int delay , int
       period );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — input device 🫶
• delay — repeat delay ⏳
• period — repeat period, periodt 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Ok so literally: enable software autorepeat on the input device. That's the whole vibe. No cap. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file ./drivers/input/input.c is right there in the mix, and these are the SEE ALSO besties:

• input_event(9)
• input_inject_event(9)
• input_alloc_absinfo(9)
• input_copy_abs(9)
• input_grab_device(9)
• input_release_device(9)
• input_open_device(9)
• input_close_device(9)
• input_scancode_to_scalar(9)
• input_default_setkeycode(9)
• input_get_keycode(9)
• input_set_keycode(9)
• input_reset_device(9)
• input_allocate_device(9)
• devm_input_allocate_device(9)
• input_free_device(9)
• input_set_timestamp(9)
• input_get_timestamp(9)
• input_set_capability(9)
• input_register_device(9)
• input_unregister_device(9)
• input_register_handler(9)
• input_unregister_handler(9)
• input_handler_for_each_handle(9)
• input_register_handle(9)
• input_unregister_handle(9)
• input_get_new_minor(9)
• input_free_minor(9)

xoxo 💖 — source/version ./drivers/input, dated October 2026, from the Kernel API Manual. Bye bestie, go enable that software autorepeat ⭐