Sporadically erroneous keystroke repetitions

[Oliver Block]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:18:01PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> Are you using kernels 2.6.31--2.6.31.4 on an SMP system or with PREEMPT
> enabled? If so, this is a Linux kernel bug, fixed in 2.6.31.5.
No. I use 2.6.26-2-686 (a Debian kernel). Is this really a new problem
in 2.6.31? In this case it must have another cause in my case.

Is it documented anywhere? It is hard to imagine that such a serious
problem exists in the Linux kernel for a longer time.