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kdb: Simplify code to fetch characters from console
Currently kdb_read_get_key() contains complex control flow that, on
close inspection, turns out to be unnecessary. In particular:
1. It is impossible to enter the branch conditioned on (escape_delay == 1)
except when the loop enters with (escape_delay == 2) allowing us to
combine the branches.
2. Most of the code conditioned on (escape_delay == 2) simply modifies
local data and then breaks out of the loop causing the function to
return escape_data[0].
3. Based on #2 there is not actually any need to ever explicitly set
escape_delay to 2 because we it is much simpler to directly return
escape_data[0] instead.
4. escape_data[0] is, for all but one exit path, known to be '\e'.
Simplify the code based on these observations.
There is a subtle (and harmless) change of behaviour resulting from this
simplification: instead of letting the escape timeout after ~1998
milliseconds we now timeout after ~2000 milliseconds
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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