From 356f4957facc85f93788cacdbde1e76ff65e3a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Axel=20D=C3=B6rfler?= <axeld@pinc-software.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:02:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a function that clears the keyboard buffer.

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@9958 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
---
 src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.h   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp b/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp
index 095b2f929c..ed0838cc57 100644
--- a/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp
+++ b/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ check_for_key(void)
 }
 
 
+extern "C" void
+clear_key_buffer(void)
+{
+	while (check_for_key() != 0)
+		;
+}
+
+
 extern "C" union key
 wait_for_key(void)
 {
diff --git a/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.h b/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.h
index 7978bdcd89..54ceeadcdf 100644
--- a/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.h
+++ b/src/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/keyboard.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ union key {
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+extern void clear_key_buffer(void);
 extern union key wait_for_key(void);
 extern uint32 check_for_boot_keys(void);