>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.
Alan you are thinking to PC here. On embedded devices that run X it is
just extra over head to use the VT interface. It would be much lighter
weigth to use the /dev/input/event interface. Personally I like to see
KBDRATE and alot of other junk go away in the console code. Intead we
just use the input api and /dev/fb with DRI. I have talked to Jim Getty
about this and likes to see things head in this direction.
P.S
Jim Getty was working on having X windows using the input api :-)
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