Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> 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.

Q1: What would you do if the user has an USB keyboard?

Q2: What application should be looking at the raw data outside the
    kernel and why?

> 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
 

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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