Re: stuffing characters to keyboard buffer.

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi, 

On Monday 02 May 2005 11:29, P.Manohar wrote:
> 
> hai,
>        I want to stuff the characters received on a serial line into the 
> keyboard buffer, so that they will be send to applications as if they are 
> coming from keyboard irrespective of console or x-windows mode.
> 
>        For this purpose, I planned to use ioctls. Can anybody tell how to 
> send an ioctl to keyboard driver?
>

If you are working with 2.6 you'd need to create an input device, probably
working on top of serport driver, like sermouse does. You may also want to
take a look at uinput driver - it allows to create userspace-driven input
devices.

-- 
Dmitry
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