Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 09:42:12 EST

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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:58:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > IOCTL is ineed the way to go to implement such functionality...
> >
> > Yes, the EVIOCSREP ioctl will be the one soon (works for USB keyboards
> > now).
>
> The KBDRATE ioctl is already supported by all other keyboard drivers and
> used by XFree86....

Correct. And it'll work on USB as well once the console code is
interfaced to USB better than just by injecting scancodes into
pc_keyb.c.

KBDRATE will work on console, while EVIOCSREP will work if you open the
keyboard as an event device.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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