Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

From: Tuukka Toivonen
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 09:03:02 EST


Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>The new system has some ups and downs. The biggest "down",
>which is that of RAW mode not being available anymore (it's
>emulated!) could be circumvented by having both the RAW and
>translated codes move between layers.

Ouch! If the user asks for raw mode, he doesn't get it, but some emulated
mode? To me this sounds like a big incompatibility. Fortunately this patch
(written together with Sau Dan Lee) should give _really_ raw mode in 2.6.x
too (but it's not compatible with the raw mode in 2.4.x):

http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/tmp/linux-2.6.5-userdev.20040507.patch
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